Dave Piscitello coordinates cybersecurity activities at Interisle and directs Interisle’s Cybercrime Information Center project. Dave has published hundreds of invited or freelance articles during his career, in print and online magazines, academic journals and industry forum publications. He has published books on various Internet technologies, including Understanding Voice over Internet Protocol Security (April 2006) and Open Systems Networking - TCP/IP and OSI. Dave continues to publish articles on cybersecurity, cybercrime, and DNS. Dave’s insightful and entertaining info blog, The Security Skeptic, was mentioned as "A blog worth visiting" in Network World's Security Newsletter, and was nominated for a 2013 Security Bloggers Award for Most Educational Security Blog.
Dave Piscitello
Prior to joining Interisle, Dave was Vice President of Security at ICANN, where he coordinated ICANN's security capacity building programs and represented ICANN in global cybersecurity forums. He collaborates regularly with security, operations, and law enforcement communities to mitigate malicious and criminal uses of domain names.
Dave is a member of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy expert community and served as an invited participant in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Security Expert Group. He serves on the Antiphishing Working Group (APWG) and Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE) Boards of Directors. He received the M3AAWG Mary Litynski Award for a Lifetime of Fighting DNS and Online Abuse in 2019.
Dave holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Villanova University.