National Cybersecurity Center & ECE Seminar
UMassD Cyber Security Education Club (CSEC) jointly with COE National Cybersecurity Center & ECE Seminar
Annual Guest Lecture for ECE548/488 Cyber Threats and Security Management
Topic:
Leadership & Character Lessons Learned from the Boston Marathon Bombing
Speaker:
John Petrozzelli, Director, MassCyberCenter, Boston, MA
Abstract: John will discuss lessons he learned while investigating the Boston Marathon Bombing. He will further discuss skills he developed over his career that helped him to contribute to a diverse and talented team of investigators who successfully argued for the prosecution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Biography: John Petrozzelli is the Director of MassCyberCenter, a public agency within the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative dedicated to enhancing cybersecurity resiliency and workforce development across the Commonwealth. John began his career as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force in 1998 and served in the Republic of Korea in 1999. In September 2001, while supporting C-17 missions, he deployed to Sicily and Germany to support forward operating bases during the initial phases of the US war in Afghanistan. John entered on duty with the FBI as an Intelligence Analyst in 2004. In 2013 John was a day shift intelligence supervisor during the Boston Marathon Bombing manhunt and led the computer forensic review of all subjects’ digital media. In 2016 he earned a Master of Science in Information Security from Boston University and became FBI Boston’s Chief Security Officer.
Before joining the MassCyberCenter, John was the Director of Cybersecurity for Magna5's Boston Metro Area. He managed day-to-day operations of the company’s Boston Security Operations Center.
The Seminars is open to the public free of charge.
For further information, please contact Dr. Hong Liu via email at hliu@umassd.edu.
Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 222
Hong Liu
508.999.8514
hliu@umassd.edu