Adjunct Faculty Winner of Women of Influence Award

The 2008 Executive Women's Forum "Women of Influence" Awards were awarded Wednesday at the event in Chandler, Arizona.

The awards recognize women in four categories: one winner from the public sector or academia, a private solutions provider from the security industry, a corporate practitioner from the private sector, and finally, 'One to Watch,' a future leader in the security field. The winners nominated by peers in the security community.

This year, the public sector winner was Dena Haritos Tsamitis, director of the Information Networking Institute and director of education, training, and outreach at CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University.  Tsamitis is also adjunct faculty at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management.

As director of the Information Networking Institute (INI) at Carnegie Mellon University, Tsamitis is responsible for the academic, administrative, and fiscal operations of the INI, which offers graduate programs in information networking, information security technology and management and information technology - information security at Carnegie Mellon's campus in Pittsburgh, as well as INI's remote offerings in Athens, Greece and Kobe, Japan through hybrid distributed education formats. In her role director of education, training, and outreach for Carnegie Mellon CyLab, she is responsible for the strategic planning, implementation, and assessment of information security/assurance executive education, capacity building, and outreach programs.

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