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Date: March 25, 1999
Cyber-terrorism, Computer Crime to be Discussed by FBI Expert
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Michael A. Vatis, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Infrastructure Protection Center, will speak on "National Security in the Information Age" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, April 6, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1. His talk will include discussion of cyber-terrorism, information warfare, and computer crime.
Vatis, who graduated from Princeton in 1985 after majoring in the Woodrow Wilson School, holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, where he was the supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. He has served as a law clerk to then-judge (now Justice) Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. From 1990 until 1993 he was in private practice, specializing in Supreme Court and appellate litigation. He returned to government service in 1993 as special counsel in the Office of General Counsel, Department of Defense, where he received the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence.
From 1994 until 1998 he served as the associate deputy attorney general in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, and then as deputy director of the Executive Office for National Security. In that capacity, he advised the attorney general on national security matters and coordinated the Department of Justice's national security activities. In addition to his current post, he is also a deputy assistant director within the FBI National Security Division.
His talk is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School.