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Biography Ms. Spencer is the Chair, Federal Public Key Infrastructure Steering Committee. In this position, she is responsible for building consensus and promoting cross-cutting solutions involving the use of public key technology for identity authentication and digital signature in the open systems environment. A key initiative of the Committee is the Federal Bridge Certification Authority (FBCA), which seeks to promote interoperability between discrete trust domains. The FBCA was open and ready for business on June 18, 2001 and is currently working with various Federal agencies and several non-Federal entities to effect both technical and policy interoperability. Prior to her current position, Ms. Spencer managed the Federal Information Security Infrastructure Program, which sought information systems security solutions for internet-based communications using public key technology. This office was responsible for developing the ACES Program. In addition, Ms. Spencer was involved in the efforts of the Federal sector to promote Critical Infrastructure Protection across the Departments and Agencies. Towards this end, Ms. Spencer led the transition of the Federal Computer Incident Response Capability (FedCIRC) from a pilot to operational status and worked with Federal agencies to build consensus for intrusion detection and incident response to unauthorized electronic exploitation. Ms Spencer has been involved in the Information Systems Security field for the past 28 years. |