Liza Wilson Durant serves as the associate provost for strategic initiatives and community engagement at George Mason University and professor and associate dean for strategic initiatives and community engagement in the College of Engineering and Computing.

She works to build meaningful partnerships across the university with external corporate, government, academic, non-profit, and global entities to support the mission of Mason’s strategic objectives.

Prior to her appointment as associate provost, she served as chair of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, where she has been a faculty member since 2010.

She received her BS and MS degrees from Cornell University and Stanford University respectively, and her Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the Johns Hopkins University.

The top cybersecurity associations are key non-profit and professional organizations known for their influence on industry standards, certifications, education, and community building.

Top cybersecurity associations include the SANS Institute for training, (ISC)² for certifications, ISACA for governance and audit, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) for cloud security, and the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) for application security.

Other prominent organizations are the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCSA).