Cynthia E. Irvine is a distinguished professor of computer science at the Naval Postgraduate School. Her research has focused on developmental security as applied to the creation of trustworthy systems, and recently, on cyber operations.

Susan Landau is a professor of cybersecurity policy in the Department of Social Science and Policy Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Landau has been a senior staff privacy analyst at Google, a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems, and a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Wesleyan University.

Steven B. Lipner recently retired as partner director of software security for Microsoft. He led Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle team and oversaw corporate strategies and policies for supply chain security, and government security evaluation of Microsoft products. Lipner currently serves as a board member and chair of SAFECode.

Ron Ross is considered the "Father" of the FISMA security standards, and is recognized as one of the world's leading experts on cybersecurity. He is also the principal architect of the NIST Risk Management Framework.

Jerome H. Saltzer is a faculty member of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Saltzer was technical director of MIT Project Athena, one of the first deployed examples of "cloud computing."