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Robert Richardson has served as Director at CSI since 2003, having worked IT in various capacities for twenty years. He's given keynote presentations on three continents, often speaking about the CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, an undertaking he directs each year. Based outside Philadelphia, he occasionally serves as an adjunct teacher of computer science at Swarthmore College.

Prior to CSI, Richardson served as Senior Editor of CMP's Communications Convergence magazine for two years, where his beats included telecom security, wireless, Internet messaging, and next-generation phone systems. Before that, Robert was a frequent contributor to magazines and Web publications such as Ziff-Davis Internet Computing, BYTE, Network Magazine, and Small Business Computing. His first book, web.guide, was published by Sybex in 1995. Building Your Own High-Tech Small Office was published by IDG in Spring 1999.

Prior to embarking on his consulting and writing career, Robert was a network applications programmer and WAN administrator. He earned a BA in English at Oberlin College.

Senior Editor Sara Peters joined the Computer Security Institute (CSI) in 2005, taking on a security beat that includes both policy issues (like Web vulnerability disclosure legislation and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) and technological issues (like Windows Vista security and third-party patching). Prior to her work in information security, she served as associate director of communications at Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, writing and editing their quarterly magazine. She began her reporting career in a small newspaper chain after graduating from Rutgers University with a B.A. degree in journalism.