Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA,
United States

Nicholas J. Multari is the Senior Technical Advisor for Research in Cybersecurity at PNNL in Richland, Washington. He establishes the direction and leads the execution of the various research projects resulting in a rigorous foundation upon which security concepts are matured and implemented. Prior to joining PNNL, he was the manager for trusted cyber technology at Boeing Research and Technology in Seattle, Washington. In 2008, he served as a consultant to the USAF Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) investigating the effects of the contested cyber environment on the USAF mission. In addition to being a Senior Security Engineer with Scitor Corporation in Northern Virginia where he supported the government in addressing enterprise level information assurance issues. Nick spent 20 years as a computer scientist in the Air Force retiring as a Lt. Col. In the Air Force, his positions ranged from system acquisitions to networking to computer security management. He received a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Manhattan College, New York; a master’s degree in Computing and Information Science from Trinity University, Texas; and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.