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Mr. Hutton serves as the Executive Director for the Central Texas Cyber Range and Clinical Associate Professor of Cybersecurity in the Computer Science Department at Baylor University. Prior to coming to Baylor in Fall 2020, Mr. Hutton had a 13+ year career in cybersecurity at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). Hutton's career has spanned a diverse set of areas including cyber resilience, cyber risk analysis, network situational awareness, network architectures, and end-to-end systems engineering. His most recent position at JHU/APL was Chief Engineering (acting) of a cybersecurity group, in which he was responsible for overseeing the technical quality and direction of that group's cybersecurity projects. Hutton has received industry certifications in the areas of cybersecurity architecture (CISSP-ISSAP), cyber risk (CRISC), penetration testing (CEH, GPEN), cyber incident response (GCIH), forensics analysis (GCFA, GNFA), and reverse engineering (GREM). His diverse training background in both offensive and defensive cybersecurity enable him to think holistically about the problems in the cybersecurity industry.

Jeff Donahoo serves as the Director of Research and Development of the Central Texas Cyber Range. He is a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Baylor University with academic specializations in cybersecurity and networking. His research centers around secure, large-scale dissemination of data and services. A major impediment to large-scale information access involves the difficulties in handling the burgeoning demands on information dissemination technologies. Unfortunately, deploying critical services at the network layer seems unlikely due to volatile policy and security barriers. One solution to this problem centers on providing appropriate services at the application layer in overlay network topologies. While this approach promises significant improvement in overall scalability for network and system resources, the effective use of such networking services is by no means automatic. Dr. Donahoo's research focuses on the interplay among routing services, transport protocols, and information dissemination problem domains with the intent to develop and point the way to technologies that address the challenge of extending traditional information dissemination applications to a world with ubiquitous information expectations. The need for ubiquity and scalability of such services often stands in conflict the desire to control and secure. Donahoo explores solutions to this juxtaposition of control and scale, including work in enterprise application development, group confidentiality, secure service membership, and more.

Dr. Jeremy McCormick is an Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas. He serves as the Head of the McLennan Cyber Defense Center and the Director of Training for the Central Texas Cyber Range. McCormick has worked in the information technology industry since 1996 in a variety of roles including Technician, Network Engineer, Web and Software Developer, Director of Technology, and IT Consultant. He holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity Technology from the University of Maryland and a Doctor of Information Technology in Information Assurance and Cybersecurity from Capella University.