Robert A. Martin is a Principal Engineer at MITRE, a not-for-profit company that works in partnership with the government to address issues of critical national importance. For the past 16 years, Robert's efforts have been focused on the interplay of risk management, cyber security, quality assessment and the use of software-based technologies. The majority of this time has been spent working on the CVE, OVAL, and CWE family of security initiatives and assessing the quality and security risks within software systems. Robert is a frequent speaker on the various quality and security issues surrounding software systems at a variety of public forums and he has published numerous papers on these topics. Robert joined MITRE in 1981 with a bachelor's and master's in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, later he earned an MBA from Babson College.