President's Forum

The President's Forum is a joint program of the Office of the President and the Innovation and Leadership Institute that brings distinguished speakers and panelists to campus to share their insights on innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership.

President's Forum events are held in the auditorium.

Oct. 26 Robert F. Lentz - President & CEO Cyber Security Strategies

Lentz is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber, Identity and Information Assurance (CIIA) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Networks and Information Integration/Chief Information Officer. Since November 2000, he served as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Department of Defense (DoD) and in this capacity, oversaw the departments $3 billion Information Assurance & Cyber Security program. As a catalyst for strategic thinking and change management, he established the first comprehensive IA/Cyber Architecture, supply chain risk management strategy, the world’s most robust Identity Management System, and played a key role leading the United States National Cyber Initiative, and follow-on Presidential cyberspace review.

Lentz started his career with the National Security Agency (NSA) in 1975. During this period, he served in the first National Computer Security Center, operated the groundbreaking National Key Management Center, led NSA’s Network and Space Office, and post-9-11 at direction of SecDef transformed relations with the private sector, innovators and academic community.

Lentz has received the NSA Resource Manager of the Year Award, the Defense Meritorious Service Award, the 2003 Presidential Rank Award and the 2004 “Federal 100” award. He also received the highest-level honorary award the Department can bestow on a civilian employee, the prestigious Secretary of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award and the 2006 “Top 20” Excellence.gov Award. In 2008, he was named Information Security government Executive of the year for the Middle Atlantic region, culminating as the North American Executive of the year. In 2009, he received the DoD Medal for Distinguished Civilian Service and the Director, National Security Agency Distinguished Service Medal. Additionally he was the recipient of the RSA award for Excellence in the Field of Security Practices and SANS Cyber Security Leader of the year.

Lentz is a graduate of the National Senior Cryptologic Course, Federal Executive Institute, Harvard Business School in Strategy Planning, and the Resource Management Course at the Naval Postgraduate School. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree with a double major from Saint Mary's College of Maryland and a Masters Degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College.

Lentz founded Cyber Security Strategies to assist governments, and enterprises with cyber security strategies and proven solutions to gain competitive advantage with their cyberspace dependent missions & business.

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