National Research Council (Co-chairs: Diana L. Burley, Seymour E. Goodman). (2013). Professionalizing the nation's cybersecurity workforce? Criteria for decision-making. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Diana Burley
Diana L. Burley, Ph.D. is executive director and chair of the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P) and full professor of human & organizational learning at The George Washington University (GW). Prior to joining GW, she managed a multi-million dollar computer science education and research portfolio and led the Cyber Corps program for the US National Science Foundation. Dr. Burley is a globally recognized cybersecurity expert who currently co-chairs the ACM/IEEE-Computer Society Joint Task Force on Cybersecurity Education. In 2013, she served as co-Chair of the US National Research Council Committee on Professionalizing the Nation’s Cybersecurity Workforce. Dr. Burley has written nearly 75 publications on cybersecurity, information sharing, and IT-enabled change. She has testified before the US Congress, conducted international cybersecurity awareness training on behalf of the US government, and served two appointments on the Cyber Security Advisory Committee of the US Commonwealth of Virginia General Assembly Joint Commission on Technology & Science (2012, 2013).
Her honors include: 2016 Woman of Influence-Public Sector/Academia by the Executive Women’s Forum in Information Security, Risk Management and Privacy; the 2014 Cybersecurity Educator of the Year; and a Top Ten Influencer in information security careers. She is the sole recipient of both educator of the year and government leader of the year awards from the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education and has been honored by the US Federal CIO Council for her work on developing the federal cyber security workforce. Sponsors such as the US National Science Foundation, US National Security Agency, Intel, and IBM have supported her research; and her board service includes Goodwill Industries International and the AlphaTech Group. Dr. Burley is a widely sought after speaker on cybersecurity workforce development; establishing a cybersecurity culture; cybersecurity education and awareness; critical information infrastructure protection; and strategies for managing in the evolving cybersecurity landscape.
She holds a BA in Economics from the Catholic University of America; M.S. in Public Management and Policy, M.S. in Organization Science, and Ph.D. in Organization Science and Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon University where she studied as a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow.
Education
Ph.D., Organization Science and Information Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
M.S., Organization Science, Carnegie Mellon University
M.S., Public Management and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
B.A., Economics, The Catholic University of America
Publications
Ford, V., Swayze, S., & Burley, D. (2013). An exploratory investigation of the relationship between disengagement, exhaustion, and turnover intention among IT professions employed at a university. Information Resources Management Journal, 26(3).
Brown, S., Denis, A., Burley, D., & Arling, P. (2013). Knowledge sharing and knowledge management system avoidance: The role of knowledge type and the social network in bypassing an organizational knowledge management system. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(10).
Hoffman, L., Burley, D., & Toregas, C. (2012). Holistically building the cybersecurity workforce. IEEE Security and Privacy, 10(2).
Burley, D., Gnam, C., Newman, R., Straker, H., & Babies, T. (2012). Leveraging higher education consortia for institutional advancement. International Journal of Education Management.
Burley, D., & Bishop. M. (2011). Final Report: Summit of Education in Secure Software. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Burley, D. (2011). Recruiting, educating, and retaining cyber security professionals in the federal workforce: Lessons learned but not yet applied. The George Washington University Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute.
Burley, D. (2010). Information visualization as a knowledge integration tool. Journal of Knowledge Management Practice, 11(4).
Burley, D. (2010). Penguin life: An ethnographic study of emergent social behavior inside Club Penguin. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 3(2).
Burley, D. (2009). Negotiation and consensus building in synthetic worlds, in working through synthetic worlds. C. Smith, W. Kisiel, Jeffrey G. Morrison (Eds.). London: Ashgate.
Presentations
CyCon US: International Conference on Cyber Conflict [October 2016, Washington, DC] – http://aci.cvent.com/events/cycon-u-s-2016-conference-on-cyber-conflict/...
CyberMaryland [October 2016, Baltimore, MD] – https://www.fbcinc.com/e/cybermdconference/
CYBERSEC EU [September 2016, Krakow, Poland] – http://cybersecforum.eu/en/
Blouin Creative Leadership Summit [September 2016, New York, NY] – http://www.creativeleadershipsummit.org
National Cyber Summit [June 2016, Huntsville, AL] – http://www.nationalcybersummit.com
Burley, D., I. Guzman, G. Pandit. [2010]. Will they stay? Turnover intentions of future federal cyber corps members. Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMIS Computing Personnel Research Conference.
In the News
Dr. Diana Burley participated in the Women in Cyber Panel, where "government and industry women leaders address key cyber security issues." In addition, Dr. Burley presented at the National Governors Association National Summit on Cybersecurity as part of Meet the Threat: States Confronts the Cyber Challenge.
Dr. Diana Burley gave the keynote address at the Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference. Dr. Burley spoke about the need to focus on social, behavioral and cultural factors that drive human behavior while developing a robust awareness campaign to improve cybersecurity in organizations. Her keynote address was mentioned in menafm.com's Spotlight on CyberSecurity! Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim Inaugurates 4th Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference (GISEC) 2017.
Dr. Diana Burley was quoted in Fox News Tech's WannaCry ransomware attack: A look at other major cyber breaches, hackings and WannaCry ransomware attack: How average computer users contributed to global spread of malware. Dr. Burley also gave a keynote speech at the Transition to Practice Technology Demonstration Day hosted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Security Division.
Dr. Diana Burley spoke this past week at the ISC(2) CyberSecureGov panel session titled Critical Infrastructure Protection - A Look at the Landscape.
Dr. Diana Burley spoke on the Lessons in Leadership | Women Leaders in STEM panel hosted by the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce. In addition, Dr. Burley was interviewed in the Association of Computing Machinery's People of ACM. Dr. Burley was also quoted in Diagnostic Imaging's article 6 Ways Small Practices Can Thwart Cybercrime, which was republished in Open Source Intelligence.
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