Joonho Lee, Incident Response Officer and Director, National Incident Response Team
Federal Reserve Bank
Joonho Lee founded, developed and instituted the National Incident Response Team (NIRT), the Federal Reserve’s tactical cyber unit responsible for information security and the protection of and intellectual assets throughout the U.S. Federal Reserve System. In this position he has instituted standardized policies, procedures and methodologies for performing intrusion detection, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, computer forensics, security monitoring and rapid deployment incident handling. He also designed and coordinated implementation of the NIRT’s network and application components including firewall, intrusion detection system, Web server and database, and launched new architectural security initiatives for implementing the next-generation firewall and intrusion detection system. In his position he also has worked closely with the U.S. Treasury, Secret Service, the FBI and local law enforcement agencies, and advised the bank’s legal team during cyber investigations. Prior to working at the Federal Reserve Bank, Mr. Lee worked at TIAA-CREF as a sr. network engineer and project manager where he developed integration strategy and managed deployment of new technology across corporate external network systems supporting over 4,000 users. Prior to this he was a project manager at Buyline.net and a software and systems engineer at Pitney Bowes, Inc. Mr. Lee is received his MBA in Technology Management and his MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and his BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. he is a recipient of the Federal Reserve banks Preident’s Award and a CISSP and holds US / European Patents for financial data transmission and Smart Card methodologies.