Cyber-Risk Informatics

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND DEDICATION

I wholeheartedly acknowledge my gratitude to distinguished experts who opinionated in the Reviews section. The reviews guide and shine as bright as our indispensable solar SUN!

This challenging and exciting effort in no way could culminate to a mountaintop you are witnessing today without the efforts of the following persons in more than several ways, such as editing, recommending, and also contributing to the chapters’ contents:

Robert Barclay, USAF, Ret., CISSP, for his seasoned hands-on expert contributions to Chapter 10; Dr. Susan Simmons, Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at UNCW, Wilmington, NC, for SAS-related contributions to Chapter 3; S. Morton and D. Tyson (M.S. in CS from Troy University); and Preethi Vasudev, Rasika Balasurya, and Sharmila Ashokan (all three with M.S. in CSIS who served as IT employees or graduate student assistants during the writing of this book while at AUM’s Informatics Institute for their important contributions at various stages with differing skills). In addition, CSIS graduate students on active duty or retired, originating from US Armed Forces, who toiled the book chapters and the homework problems and exams during 2011 to 2014 by now having graduated, are acknowledged.

Last but not least, I wish to posthumously commemorate the late Professors H. O. Hartley (founder of TAMU Statistics) and A. K. Ayoub (ECE/TAMU), both true gentlemen and my Ph.D. dissertation supervisors from 1977 to 1981 who trusted ...