Title Chief Security Officer Company AT&T Bio Dr. Edward G. Amoroso currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer at AT&T, where his primary responsibilities lie in the real-time protection of AT&T’s vast enterprise, network, and computing infrastructure, including its emerging LTE mobile network and cloud services. Ed’s team is presently focused on creating innovative means for reducing the risk of advanced persistent threat (APT), distributed denial of service (DDOS), mobile malware, and cloud infrastructure attacks targeting AT&T and its customers. Ed’s team works specifically in the area of advanced threat analytics, virtualization of cloud resident security protections, enterprise security policy and architecture, and advanced detection of malware. Ed also manages AT&T’s intellectual property and patent development group. During his twenty-nine year career with AT&T, beginning at Bell Labs, Ed has focused exclusively on cyber security, working on projects ranging from Unix operating system security to critical infrastructure protection design. Ed is the author of dozens of technical papers and reports, as well as five published books on the topic of cyber security. For the past twenty-five years, he has also served as adjunct professor of computer science at the Stevens Institute of Technology, where he has introduced roughly 2,500 graduate students to the topic of computer security. Ed holds the BS degree in physics from Dickinson College, and the MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the Stevens Institute of Technology. Ed is also a graduate of the Columbia Business School. In 2000, Ed was awarded the AT&T Labs Technology Medal and was elected an AT&T Fellow in 2009. Ed’s work has been featured in major news media such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and CNN. He has recently completed, with his seventeen-year-old son Matthew, a high school textbook on computer science entitled “From Gates to Apps” (Silicon Press, 2013).