Samuel Perl

Samuel J. Perl is a senior member of the technical staff on the CSIRT development team within the CERT® Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a unit of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He has been at CERT since 2011 and has performed research in a variety of areas including insider threat, vulnerability assessment, security incident and threat data analysis, threat modeling, information sharing, artificial intelligence, cognitive processes, formal methods, and incident management team development.

Prior to joining CERT, Perl gained over 10 years of industry experience working with client organizations to manage their most challenging IT security risk issues. Perl holds a M.S. in information security management from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in information systems from Carnegie Mellon University. He has also held appointments as an adjunct instructor in the Carnegie Mellon University’s Information Systems (IS) program, Heinz College of Information Systems Policy and Management and formerly in the West Virginia University Honors College. He is also a member of the graduate faculty at the Florida Institute of Technology where he serves as a cybersecurity advisor on thesis and project committees.