Samuel J. Perl is a member of the CSIRT (Computer Security Incident Response Team) development team within the CERT® Division at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a unit of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He has been with CERT since 2011 and has worked in a variety of areas, including insider threat, vulnerability assessment, security incident data analysis, and incident management team development. Prior to joining CERT, Perl gained over 10 years of industry experience working with client organizations to manage their most challenging IT security risk issues. Perl holds a Master of Science degree in Information Security Management and a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.