Peter Allor

Peter Allor is the Treasurer for The CVE Foundation and is one Board of Directors for the Foundation, focusing on the support to advance the common understanding of and response to cyber vulnerabilities. He is the Chair for the FIRST PSIRT Special Interest Group and moderates the Open Source Software CNA Users Group.Prior roles include Senior Director, Product Security for Red Hat. Where he was instrumental in Red Hat’s secure development and incident response programs for Red Hat and in working upstream security groups such as CVE, CVSS, and PSIRTs. He focuses on developing solutions that integrate the full spectrum of security operations within an organizations domain in support of business.

Other prior roles include Senior Director for security at Honeywell, Cybersecurity Strategist at IBM and managing vulnerability and incident coordination at IBM for the IBM X-Force. Prior to IBM acquiring Internet Security Systems (ISS), Peter was the Special Assistant to the CEO of ISS for working National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) problem sets and assisted in forming the Information Technology - Sector Coordinating Council (IT-SCC) where he recently returned to the Executive Committee, serving as Vice-Chair and Treasurer. As the former Operations Center Director, he ran the Information Technology - Information Sharing & Analysis Center (IT-ISAC) operations and brought coordination across the sector ISACs.

Peter is a current Member of the CVE Board, a former member Board of Director of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) and its Chief Financial Officer for FIRST. Peter was President to the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI) and an Executive Committee Member of the IT Sector Coordinating Council (IT-SCC). A former Commissioner for the CSIS Cybersecurity Commission for the 44th Presidency, he assisted in developing recommendations for the Public and Private Sectors to work collaboratively on Cyber Security.

Peter is a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the US Army. He has Masters Degree from the University of Phoenix, a BS in Business Administration from Rollins College and is a Graduate of the US Army Command & General Staff College.