PUBLICATIONS
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Norris, D., Mateczun, L., & Forno, R., (2022) Cybersecurity and Local Governments. John Wiley & Sons.
Forno, R. & van Wyk, K. (2001) Incident Response. O’Reilly; Sebastopol, CA.
Government Testimony
2021-01-27: Written testimony to the Maryland Senate Economic Matters Committee regarding the proposed ‘Right to Repair’ legislation. (co-signed with Dr. Avi Rubin, JHU)
2019-06-26: Written and oral testimony before the Maryland’s Joint Committee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Biotechnology regarding state cybersecurity preparedness and the Maryland Technology Intern Program (MTIP).
Articles (Professional and Popular Press, selected relevant commentaries)
For The Conversation (2016-present, over 22 articles...)
Academic & Peer Reviewed Works
Orr, S., Bonyadi, C., Golaszewski, E., Sherman, A., Peterson, P., Forno, R., Johns, S., Rodriguez, J. (2022). "Shadow IT in Higher Education: Survey and Case Study for Cybersecurity." Cryptologia
Pearson, E., and Forno, R. (2017). “The persuasion of perception: Internet narratives in the public consciousness.” Proceedings of SIGDOC ’17 The 35th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication. Halifax, NS, Canada — August 11 – 13, 2017.
Forno, R. and Pearson, E. (2016). “Breaking The Rules of Discipline: Interdisciplinary Collaborations and New Directions for Internet Research.” Accepted roundtable for AOIR 2016: Internet Rules in Berlin, Germany, October 2016.
Forno, R. and Pearson, E. (2015). “Realistically Imaging the Internet: Understanding and overcoming perceptions when educating policymakers, parents, and the public about technology risks.” Discussion Draft Presented at AOIR 2015: Digital Imaginaries in Phoenix AZ, October 2015.
Forno, R. (2015) “ Hack, Play, Win: Lessons Learned Running The Maryland Cyber Challenge” USENIX ;login; Journal of the Advanced Computing Systems Association. (Vol. 40 (6))
Forno, R. (2012) “Looking Within to Improve American Cybersecurity” USENIX ;login; Journal of the Advanced Computing Systems Association. (Vol. 37 (4)).
Forno, R., “Technological Determinism: Is The Future Behind Us? (Working Paper).” Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. (October 2005)
Forno. R., and Feinbloom, W. (2001). “PKI: A Matter of Trust and Value” Inside Risks 132, Communications of the ACM 44. (p. 120)
Yuill, J, Wu, F, Settle, J., Gong, F., Forno, R., Huang, M., Asbery, J. (2000). “Applying the Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield Process to Network Incident Response.” International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking (Vol. 34 (4) pp. 671-697.)
Book Chapters
Forno, R (2018). “Political Realism and the Internet: New Networks of Power” (pp 528-539) in The Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism, Robert Schuett and Miles Hollingworth (eds.) Edinburgh University Press.
Forno, R. (2005). “High Tech Heroin” in Inventing Arguments, John Mauk and John Metz (eds.) Wadsworth Publishing. (pp. 326-329)
Forno, R. (2000). “The InfoCorps: A Unique Proposal for a Unique Mission” in Cyberwar 2.0, Myth, Mystery, Reality, Al Campen and Doug Dearth (eds.) Fairfax VA: AFCEA International Press. (pp. 255-266)
Encyclopedia Entries
Weinstein, S. and Forno, R. (2015). “Cybersecurity Education” in Encyclopedia of Educational Technology. J. Michael Spector, editor. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (pp.169-172)
For Other Publications/Sites...
Forno, R. (2018) “Should the Government Require Companies to Meet Cybersecurity Standards for Critical Infrastructure?” Wall Street Journal (2018-11-12)
Forno, R. (2016) “Apple ordered to help FBI bypass iPhone security” Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (2016-02-17)
Forno, R. “The Sony Hack: A Warning for Internet Policy” Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society. (2015-01-02)
Forno, R. “Is the vulnerability disclosure ‘debate’ resurfacing?” Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society. (2014-05-31)
Forno, R. “CISPA, Redux.” Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society. (2013-02-10)
Forno, R. “Credibility Lost: How Hollywood’s Own Reality Undermines Its Position on Internet Policy” Counterpunch.Org (2012-01-2012)
Hrabowski, F. (UMBC’s President) and Forno, R. “Higher Education Must Lead in Cybersecurity” Montgomery County Gazette (2010-11-05)
Forno, R. and Schneier, B. “National ID card a disaster in the making” NEWS.COM (2007-12-18)
Forno, R. “Spinning SiteFinder: FUD, brought to you by Verisign.” Sydney Morning Herald. (2003-10-08)
Monthly short-form column at SecurityFocus.Com from 2000-2003 covering assorted technical and policy items for cybersecurity industry practitioners.
Technical Reports (contributor)
CERT/CC Advisory 2000-01 (“Denial of Service Developments”) Software Engineering Institute CERT/CC. Pittsburgh, PA. (2000-01-03)
CERT/CC Advisory 1999-17 (“Denial of Service Tools”) Software Engineering Institute CERT/CC. Pittsburgh, PA. (1999-12-28)
CERT/CC “Results of the Distributed Systems Intruder Tools Workshop.” Software Engineering Institute CERT/CC. Pittsburgh, PA. (1999-12-07)