Julia Allen

Principal Researcher

Key Responsibilities

Conducting research in operational resilience, software assurance, and measurement and analysis

Professional Background

Allen has been with the SEI since 1992. She served as Deputy Director/Chief Operating Officer for 3 years as well as as acting Director for an interim period of 6 months. Allen has been with the SEI's CERT Program since 1997. She is the author of The CERT Guide to System and Network Security Practices (Addison-Wesley 2001) and moderator for the CERT Podcast Series: Security for Business Leaders. She is a co-author of Software Security Engineering: A Guide for Project Managers (Addison-Wesley 2008) and CERT Resilience Management Model (RMM): A Maturity Model for Managing Operational Resilience (Addison-Wesley 2010).

Publications (recent or significant)

Allen, Julia & Curtis, Pamela. Measures for Managing Operational Resilience (CMU/SEI-2011-TR-019). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June 2011.

 Allen, Julia & Davis, Noopur. Measuring Operational Resilience Using the CERT Resilience Management Model (CMU/SEI-2010-TN-030). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September 2010.

Education

• MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California
• BS, Computer Science, University of Michigan

Professional Memberships

• IEEE

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