Dr Bill Claycomb

Dr Bill Claycomb is a Principal Cyber Advisor for the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute’s National Initiative for the Advancement of Cybersecurity and serves as the Principal Researcher for the CERT Division’s National Insider Threat Center. He leads multidisciplinary projects related to cyber security and human behavior, primarily investigating novel techniques for detection, prevention, and mitigation of insider threats for government and industry. Prior to joining the SEI, he pioneered early efforts for preventing insider attacks on enterprise information systems at Sandia National Laboratories. Bill has published numerous peer-reviewed conference and journal papers, served as Steering Committee Chair for the IEEE Workshop on Research for Insider Threats (WRIT), served as Associate Editor for a special issue on Insider Threats for the ACM Journal on Digital Threats – Research & Practice, and is an Associate Editor for the inaugural issue of Counter Insider Threats: Research and Practice.