Dr. Blaine Burnham is the Principal Research Scientist in the College of Computing and serves as the Director of Georgia Tech Information Security Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Burnham most recently served as program manager for the National Security Agency (NSA) at Ft. Meade, Maryland. While at NSA Dr. Burnham established, promoted and sustained the Information Security Research Council for the Department of Defense as well as the intelligence community as a whole. He also achieved an operational prototype of a trusted client/serve operation system; created and developed the Product Security Profile (PSP); and directed the Infosec Criteria and Guidelines organization that published half of the guideline documents, the Rainbow Series, and crafted the Federal Criteria.
