Rebecca Gurley Bace is the President of Infidel, Inc., a consulting practice specializing in intrusion detection and network security technology and strategy. Prior to founding Infidel, Ms. Bace spent 13 years in government, the first 12 as an employee for the National Security Agency. She led the Computer Misuse and Anomaly Detection (CMAD) Research program from 1989 through 1995, as a charter member of NSA's Office of Information Security Research and Technology (R2). As the leader of CMAD research, Ms. Bace championed much of the early research in Intrusion Detection, sponsoring academic research at Purdue University (COAST project), the University of California, Davis (Security Lab), University of New Mexico, and Tulane University. Ms. Bace's research collaborations with Dr. David Icove of the Federal Bureau of Investigation led to the commercial publication of a manual for computer crime investigation. She and the CMAD workshop series she founded and sponsored were involved in the 1995 detection, traceback, and apprehension of Kevin Mitnick, at the time the FBI's most wanted computer criminal. Ms. Bace received a NSA Distinguished Leadership Award in 1995, in recognition of her work building the national CMAD community. After leaving the NSA in 1996, Ms. Bace served as the Deputy Security Officer for the Computing, Information, and Communications Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. A native of Leeds, Alabama, Ms. Bace holds the Bachelor of Science from the University of the State of New York, and the Master of Engineering Science from Loyola College.