Rocky Young

Principal Cyber Security Engineer MITRE Corporation

Dr. Young is an expert in the fields of cybersecurity, Information Assurance and Operations (IAO) and cyber medicine. He has presented widely on issues and challenges related to the security of wireless/mobile devices, cloud/virtual networks, the cyber workforce, network/systems security principles, safeguards, and cyber medicine practices.

Presently he is a Principal Cyber Security Engineer at the MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit company that operates multiple federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). Dr. Young is supporting numerous U.S. Government sponsors with cyber security and cyber medicine initiatives, in addition to supporting numerous corporate endeavors. Previously as a government civilian, he supported the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) as the Director for Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Outreach (CIAO); Director, Computer Network Defense (CND) Service Providers Program and finally as the Director, Mobile Device Security Division, Office of the Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO).

Dr. Young has been a professor at National Defense University (NDU) since 2002 teaching cybersecurity courses to our nation's future military and government leaders in addition to allied international students. Prior to that, he was Chief of 11th Wing Information Assurance Office, Air Force District of Washington, providing policy guidance, technical support, and security oversight of communication, computers, and classified emissions.

Dr. Young retired from the USAF after serving on active duty for 21 years, from an early beginning as an enlisted Airman @ seventeen, to serving in the Middle East during Desert Storm, then flying Special Air Missions (SAM) Aircrew for the White House, SECDEF, and other US government dignitaries and ultimately finished up his military career as a Commissioned Federal Medical Officer and professor at NDU.

He continues to serve as a volunteer in his Medical Officer capacity with the Wounded Warrior Program, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion while teaching masters-level cybersecurity courses at the University of Maryland (UMUC) and Syracuse University.