Dan Geer

Dan Geer is a former computer security consultant for @stake, a company cooperating with Microsoft. He published a 2003 paper arguing that Microsoft was a Monoculture; he was later fired.

The 24 page report entitled [http://www.ccianet.org/papers/cyberinsecurity.pdf CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly] was released by the Computer & Communications Industry Association ([http://www.ccianet.org/ CCIA]) which made the argument that Microsoft is a threat to national security.

Geer has a Doctor of Philosophy in biostatistics, from Harvard and has worked for

Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard School of Public Health

Project Athena, MIT

Digital Equipment Corporation

Geer Zolot & Associates

OpenVision Technologies

Open Market

Certco (financial services)

He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

=External links=

*[http://napps.nwfusion.com/weblogs/security/003879.html Oh Dan Geer, where art thou by Ellen Messmer] *[http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/gc/webletter/verdasys/issue1/ Data Security Economics Point at the Host by Dan Geer] *[http://www.verdasys.com/pdfs/EconMatters.pdf Security of Information When Economics Matters by Dan Geer (PDF format)] *[http://www.verdasys.com/pdfs/ShrinkPerim.pdf The Shrinking Perimeter: Making the Case for Data-Level Risk Management by Dan Geer (PDF format)] *[http://www.itconversations.com/transcripts/84/transcript84-1.html Dan Geer s The Shrinking Security Perimeter interview]