Hart Rossman

Chief Technology Officer,
Cyber Programs

Hart Rossman keeps SAIC's cyber technologies ahead of new threats.

Hart Rossman is vice president and chief technology officer for Cyber Security Services & Solutions at SAIC. Rossman has oversight and responsibility for technology strategy, vendor relations and solution development, R&D, practice leadership for cybersecurity solutions; and provides customer support in solving all phases of complex information assurance-related problems.

His areas of technical expertise include risk management, security in the software and system development lifecycle, system certification and accreditation, and security in the cyber supply chain. Rossman's domains of focus include cloud, mobility, consumerization, big data and analytics, national security systems, and emerging technology and cultural trends.

SAIC's cybersecurity experts are actively involved in research, innovation, and education. Rossman serves as a senior research fellow within the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland in the area of cyber supply chain assurance and as a faculty member with the Institute for Applied Network Security.

Rossman is active in the community, representing SAIC's Incident Response Team in FIRST®, acting as a founding member of the Corporate Executive Programme, is on the steering committee of the Open Group's Trusted Technology Forum; and is on the University of Maryland - Baltimore County (UMBC) cybersecurity academic advisory committee.

He has co-authored seminal academic papers in the cyber supply discipline including Building A Cyber Supply Chain Assurance Reference Model, Assessing SCRM Capabilities and Perspectives in the IT Vendor Community: Toward a Cyber Supply Chain Code of Practice, and contributed to the book X-SCM: The New Science of X-treme Supply Chain Risk Management.

Rossman has been named to the state of Maryland Governor's Workforce Investment Board Cyber Security Workforce Steering Committee as well as the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, Inc., (ISC)² Application Security Advisory Board and is a named contributor to the Common Weakness Enumeration/ SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security Institute (CWE/SANS) Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors.

He is in demand as a featured speaker at conferences on topics ranging from the role of cloud computing in the secure mobile ecosystem to a discussion of how public/private partnerships can help secure the IT supply chain.

Rossman has a B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of Maryland - College Park. He has earned certified information systems security professional (CISSP) and certified secure software lifecycle professional (CSSLP) certification.