Rodney Petersen is the director of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Petersen previously served as the senior policy advisor to EDUCAUSE and was the managing director of EDUCAUSE Washington. He founded and directed the EDUCAUSE Cybersecurity Initiative and was the lead staff liaison for the Higher Education Information Security Council. Prior to joining EDUCAUSE, he served as the director of IT policy and planning in the office of the vice president, and chief information officer at the University of Maryland.