Deadlines
School of Accountancy Conference 2017
Presenters
Dale Rowe
Dale Rowe is an associate professor at Brigham Young University. He has over 20 years of experience in systems architecture with a variety of industries in multi-national European/US companies. He ran a small consultancy firm in England from 2005 to 2010, providing secure enterprise architecture on both military and commercial satellite communications systems. He believes firmly that keeping personal technical skills current are key to being an effective instructor and maintains these skills by running a large research and training network.
Dr. Rowe received his Bachelors in Computer Systems Engineering and Ph.D. in Biometric Security from the University of Kent, England. Since joining BYU in 2010, he has designed a variety of courses on Information Assurance, Cyber Security, Penetration Testing, Cyber Forensics and Systems Administration. In 2011 he founded the Cybersecurity Research Laboratory at BYU and regularly coaches collegiate cyber defense competition (CCDC) teams.
BYU CCDC teams have competed 12 times taking 1st place seven times. They have taken second and third place at the 2016 and 2017 National CCDCs. As well as compete, Dr. Rowe’s team of students regularly create training simulations and Capture-the-Flag competitions across the region for high-school youths. They also run an annual cybersecurity summer camp for girls.