About me
Dave Lanter, PhD, GISP, CISA, CISSP is Director for Information Technology Auditing and Cyber Security graduate programs & National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense at Temple University. Previously, he was Vice President of Information Management Services at CDM Smith, Research Director at Rand McNally, GeoModeling QA Lead & Software Design Engineer at Microsoft, Systems Analyst at Grumman Data Systems, and President of Geographic Designs Inc. He earned his Bachelor’s degree with Honors from Clark University, Master’s degrees in GIS from SUNY-Buffalo and IT Auditing and Cyber Security from Temple University, and Ph.D. in Geographic Information Processing from the University of South Carolina. Dave is a long-time URISA member, GLA instructor, workshop author and instructor, and past chair of URISA’s Workshop Development Committee.