Doug  Jacobson, PhD

Doug Jacobson, PhD

Iowa State University

University Professor, electrical and computer enginering

Expertise: CybersecurityCyber DefenseInformation Assurance

Doug Jacobson directs the Center for Cybersecurity Innovation and Outreach at Iowa State University and assists with the Cyber Security Engineering major. (The center has earned designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency four times since 1999.) As part of his cybersecurity research, Jacobson has developed testbeds to study attacks on internet and cyber-physical systems. He also leads Cyber Defense Competitions on campus designed to help students learn to protect computer systems from outside attackers. He's the go-to source for Iowa media whenever cyberattacks are in the news.

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“From an attack standpoint, that’s the cheapest form of attack with the lowest chance of being caught. It’s asymmetrical warfare at its best. A single individual can cause enormous damage. "It’s not fair.”

- Iowa State engineers build cyber security testbed to help protect the power grid

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