MITRE Director Peter Tasker Receives Pillar of CERIAS Award

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Bedford, Massachusetts, May 20, 2005 — Peter Tasker, executive director of the Information Security Division at MITRE, recently received the Pillar of CERIAS Award from the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Ind.

Pillar Awards are presented for long and noteworthy contributions to the center's mission, which is to advance the knowledge and practice of information assurance and security. The award was presented by Dr. Eugene Spafford, the Executive Director of the center.

MITRE first sponsored CERIAS in 1996 when it was still known as Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Technology (COAST), and it served as an interdisciplinary laboratory in computer security research in the Computer Sciences Department at Purdue University.

At a security vulnerability database workshop in 1999 sponsored by COAST, MITRE staff proposed a common naming idea for vulnerabilities that would later become the first dictionary of known vulnerabilities, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE). Previously, each security product vendor had named new vulnerabilities, resulting in some cases in as many as 10 different names for the same vulnerability.

In 2000, COAST was renamed CERIAS, and among the first companies to locate staff at their research technology park offices was MITRE. Tasker serves as a member of the CERIAS External Advisory Board, which allows him access to other executive sponsors that are well-known names in security, including those from Microsoft, Cisco, and Symantec.

"It's been a mutually positive working relationship," said Tasker. "What is particularly heartening is looking back over the 8½ years I've been associated with them to see all they have accomplished on the roadmap we on the Board helped them develop."

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