Mr. Howard A. Schmidt is president and CEO of R & H Security Consulting, LLC.
He served as vice president and chief information security officer and chief security strategist for eBay. Most recently, Schmidt was chief security strategist for the U.S. CERT Partners Program for the National Cyber Security Division in the Department of Homeland Security.
He retired from the White House after 31 years of public service in local and federal governments, including the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the FBI National Drug Intelligence Center. He was appointed by President Bush as the vice chair (later becoming chair) of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and as the special adviser for Cyberspace Security for the White House. Prior to the White House, Schmidt was chief security officer for Microsoft.
Schmidt is the international president of the Information Systems Security Association and was the first president of the Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center. Schmidt has been appointed to the Information Security Privacy Advisory Board to advise the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the secretary of Commerce and the director of the Office of Management and Budget on information security and privacy issues.