Jeffrey Hunker
Jeffrey Hunker | |
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| Born | 20 January 1957 |
| Died | 31 May 2013 (aged 56) |
| Occupation(s) | Cybersecurity consultant, writer |
| Known for | Cybersecurity consulting, introducing the term cyberinfrastructure |
Jeffrey Hunker (January 20, 1957 – May 31, 2013) was a prominent American expert in cybersecurity consulting and an accomplished writer.
Biography
Hunker obtained his bachelor's degree from Harvard College and completed a Ph.D. at Harvard Business School. His professional journey began with the Boston Consulting Group, after which he provided guidance to the United States Department of Commerce. He established the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, which was subsequently incorporated into the Department of Homeland Security's National Protection and Programs Directorate. Additionally, he held the position of Senior Director for Critical Infrastructure within the United States National Security Council.
Throughout his career, Hunker held the role of Vice President at Kidder, Peabody & Co., served as dean of the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon, and was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Recognized for introducing the term cyberinfrastructure, he partnered with Richard A. Clarke on topics related to cyberterrorism and concentrated his scholarly work on Homeland and Information Security. He also represented Carnegie Mellon University at the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection.
In 2010, Hunker authored Creeping Failure: How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix It, published by McClelland and Stewart, an imprint of Random House; this book received a Scientific American Recommended designation. That same year, he co-edited Insider Threats in Cyber Security and contributed a chapter on insider threat risk assessment to The Economics of Information Security and Privacy.
Up until 2013, he held a Visiting Scholar appointment in Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, while also providing consultancy services for a leading philanthropic organization based in Pittsburgh. Among his later publications is Cybersecurity: Shared Risks, Shared Responsibilities (2012). Dr. Hunker died on May 31, 2013.