Donald F. Norris, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He retired from UMBC in 2017 after serving twenty-seven years as Director of the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research and ten years as Director of the UMBC School of Public Policy. His fields of study include: (1) public management, where he specializes in information technology in governmental organizations, including e-government and cybersecurity; and (2) urban affairs broadly, but with specific attention to metropolitan governance. Dr. Norris has published seven books, thirty-seven articles in refereed journals, twenty-five chapters in books, and fourteen papers in refereed conference proceedings. His most recent scholarly works appeared in Public Administration Review in 2019 and the Journal of Urban Affairs in 2020 (online) and 2021 (in print). The data for these papers came from the first nationwide survey of local government cybersecurity and was conducted by UMBC scholars in partnership with the International City/County Management Association (ICMA). Dr. Norris received a BS in history from the University of Memphis and an MA and a PhD in political science from University of Virginia. He can be reached at: [email protected].

Laura K. Mateczun, JD, is a PhD student in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County where she is writing her dissertation on local government cybersecurity. She received a Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity Strategy and Policy from UMBC in 2021. She has also co-authored four peer-reviewed articles based on the results of the first-ever nationwide survey on local government cybersecurity. Her policy interests are interdisciplinary in nature and span fields from public management to criminal justice and cybersecurity. She is a 2014 graduate of the University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law and is a member of the Maryland Bar. Laura received a BA in public policy and political science from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2011. She can be reached at: [email protected].

Richard F. Forno, PhD, is a principal lecturer in the UMBC Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, where he directs the UMBC Graduate Cybersecurity Program and serves as the assistant director of UMBC’s Center for Cybersecurity. His twenty-year career in operational cybersecurity before academia spans the government, military, and private sectors in both technical and management roles, including helping to build a formal cybersecurity program for the US House of Representatives, serving as the first Chief Security Officer for Network Solutions (then, the global center of the internet DNS system), consulting to Fortune 100 companies, and more. Dr. Forno holds degrees in international relations from American University and Salve Regina University, and is a graduate of Valley Forge Military College and the United States Naval War College. His doctoral research at Curtin University of Technology explored the complex nature of security informatics and risk communication for internet-based organizations, and as one of the early thought leaders on cyberwarfare, he continues to research, write, and speak about resiliency and the influence of internet technology upon global society. He can be reached at: [email protected]