Jeffrey J. Carpenter is the technical manager of the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) at the Software Engineering Institute located at Carnegie Mellon University. The CERT/CC focuses on technical issues relating to Internet security, including providing:

• Internet security information for system and network administrators, technology managers, and policy makers
• guidance and coordination for major Internet security events
• leadership in the response team community Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) formation and development assistance

Previously, Mr. Carpenter was the project leader for development of the incident portion of the CERT Knowledgebase currently being developed. This knowledgebase will contain information about incident activity reported to the CERT/CC and will better allow for the analysis of incident data. Prior to that, he was the CERT/CC was as incident response team leader, managing staff that provides technical assistance to Internet sites that have experienced a computer security incident.

Before joining the CERT/CC, Mr. Carpenter was a systems analyst for the University of Pittsburgh, where he was responsible for many of the UNIX-based services provided by the computer center and one of the architects of its distributed UNIX environment.

Mr. Carpenter regularly collaborates with and presents to a number of external organisations to help understand the current state of Internet security and to address current and future security problems facing the Internet.

In his spare time, Mr. Carpenter responds to a different kind of incidents as a fire fighter and fire police officer with the Evergreen Volunteer Fire Company and the Ross Township Fire Police, both located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Mr. Carpenter has been involved in the fire service since 1986, and has served as president, secretary, treasurer and director in several fire service organisations.