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John Krautheim, University of Maryland

John Krautheim is currently a full-time student under the DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Program attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Engineering. He is performing his dissertation research in identifying and protecting software in virtual computing environments. His research interests are computer security, identity and authentication, trusted computing systems, virtual machines, and application security. Krautheim has 10 years of industry experience in electronics system design and software engineering at Motorola, LSI Logic, and Mentor Graphics. He is currently employed as a Security Architect by the National Security Agency, where he has been for the last six years. He is also an Adjunct Professor teaching Information Assurance and Application Security at Capitol College in Laurel, MD. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and a Project Management Professional. He has also received certification in the National Training Standard for Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) Professionals (NSTISSI-4011) and Federal Chief Information Officer programs from the Information Resource Management College at the National Defense University. He has a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky.