Fred Cate

Director of CACR,
Distinguished Professor of Law,
Adjunct Professor of Informatics

Fred H. Cate is a Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington and director of the Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. He specializes in privacy, security, and other information law issues, and appears regularly before Congress, government agencies, and professional and industry groups on these matters.

Professor Cate is a senior policy advisor to the Center for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams and a member of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals, and the board of editors of Privacy & Information Law Report. He also serves as reporter for the American Law Institute's project on Principles of the Law on Government Access to and Use of Personal Digital Information.

Previously, Professor Cate served as counsel to the Department of Defense Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee, reporter for the third report of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, and a member of the Federal Trade Commission's Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security. He directed the Electronic Information Privacy and Commerce Study for the Brookings Institution and chaired the International Telecommunication Union's High-Level Experts on Electronic Signatures and Certification Authorities.

He is the author of many articles and books, and appears regularly in the popular press. A senator and fellow of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and an elected member of the American Law Institute, Professor Cate received his J.D. and his A.B. with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University. He is listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in American Education. In 2007 Computerworld listed him as the only academic on its list of "Best Privacy Advisers" in the United States and Europe.

Kay Connelly

Senior Associate Director

Kay Connelly serves as senior associate director of CACR, helping to provide greater coordination for all of CACR’s activities and oversee our internal programs (such as the expanded speaker series), coordinate our expanding work in health information security and privacy, and help to further enhance our close collaboration with Informatics in this and other areas.

Steven Wallace

Associate Director

Steven Wallace has joined CACR as a new associate director. He will not only continue in his role as director of ANML, but will also work to enhance cooperation between cybersecurity faculty, the lab, and other IU resources such as Internet2. Steve’s considerable expertise will be invaluable in two of our focus areas—health and national security.

William K. Barnett

Associate Director

Bill Barnett has joined CACR as a new associate director. Bill is senior manager for life sciences in the UITS Research Technologies office, and director of the Advanced IT Core in the IU School of Medicine. He brings a wealth of experience in health care information infrastructure, and will work with Kay in advancing our health information security and privacy initiatives.

Mark Bruhn

Associate Director

Mark Bruhn, Associate Vice President for Information and Infrastructure Assurance, has assumed broader responsibilities as the CACR associate director responsible not only for our interaction with UITS and the Security and Policy Offices, but also the REN-ISAC. His experience as executive director of the REN-ISAC and with the annual higher education cybersecurity summit (which Mark has also been responsible for), Educause, and site visits to other colleges and universities makes him ideal to oversee our outreach to higher education generally and our strategy of identifying IU as the leader in higher education cybersecurity.

Scott Orr

Associate Director

Scott Orr is continuing as the associate director responsible for the Indianapolis campus and our relations with Purdue. Scott spearheaded IU’s successful efforts to obtain NSA center of excellence certifications, and he will continue to be responsible for keeping those up-to-date and for CACR’s relations with the NSC’s education components (such as its scholarship programs).

Marjorie Young

Administrator