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Dr. Victor Berlin is an educator specializing in Information Security, and the President of the University of Fairfax. Dr. Victor Berlin is an educator specializing in Information Security, and the President of the University of Fairfax[1]. His standard biography states that he earned a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern University and a B.A. from Cornell University. Dr. Berlin has published in the IIEEE Transaction on Engineering Management, Management Science, and Decision Sciences. At the University of Fairfax, under Dr. Berlin’s guidance, senior IT and information security profesionals have been able to advance their careers in the public and private sectors. By focusing on information security and information assurance policy level problems, the University of Fairfax senior professional students have applied field research methods to addressing issues such as:
• Identity theft prevention • FISMA Compliance • Sarbanes Oxely Compliance • Certification and Accreditation of Information System • Enterprise Risk Management • Utilization of ISSE in the System Acquistion Process
These students have been guided by faculty who are leading practitioners in the information security field. These practitioners hold leadership postions within the public and private sectors. They bring to the class room their expertise and knowledge of current technical, threat and regulatory/compliance trends. As a result, students can rapidly transfer what they learn to problems they must solve on their jobs. The University of Fairfax doctoral students have benefited from an innovative dissertation process which as resulted in a 90% retention of “ABD” students. This retention level exceeds the national average by 300%. Dr. Berlin’s 30 years of experience in the federal sector and higher education has enabled him to provide the guidance necessary for the accomplishments of the University of Fairfax. Prior to becoming president of the University of Fairfax Dr. Berlin has served on the faculty of the graduate school of management at Boston College, as Chief of Experimental Methods in the Experimental Technology Incentives Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, as Director of the Center of IT Education at Anteon Corporation a(now GDIT) and on the faculty of the Keller Graduate School of Management. In addition he served in executive or acacdemic adminsitrative positions at General Communications, Potomac College and Rockwell University.
