Re: Happy Retirement, Mark Bruhn

[Cathy Hubbs <hubbs () AMERICAN EDU>]

Mark,
Wishing you well all the best as you take on your next adventure. Thank you for your numerous contributions to our 
field.

Cathy Hubbs, CISO
American University
Washington DC

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> on behalf of "Milford, Kim" 
<kmilford () IU EDU>
Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 3:27 PM
To: <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
Subject: [SECURITY] Happy Retirement, Mark Bruhn


Dear colleagues,

Please join me and the rest of the REN-ISAC staff in wishing Mark Bruhn, REN-ISAC co-founder and long-time community 
member, a hearty congratulations and a fond farewell as he starts his retirement!

From his early years as a Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) in charge of Air Defense and Electronic Warfare Operations for 
the Air Force to his current position as Peer Cybersecurity Assessment Service Engagement Manager at REN-ISAC, Mark has 
dedicated his career to promoting physical and information security at the institutional, local, regional, and national 
levels.

When Mark came to Indiana University about 36 years ago, he toiled away in, what IU President Michael McRobbie jokingly 
refers to as, “a dark, dank basement working on security in relative obscurity.” Mark eventually moved out of the 
basement and into the role of Associate Vice President of Public Safety and Institutional Assurance. In this position, 
Mark advised university leadership on emergency management and response, administrative and academic continuity, 
policing and community safety, homeland security, emergency communications, enterprise risk management, and 
environmental health and safety. He also supervised incident response; computer and telecommunications systems 
security; and institutional and personal information security.

As far back as 1987, Mark began to recognize a need for institutional understanding and awareness of information 
security risks, and in that drive to create a community of information sharing in the higher education sector, Mark 
co-founded the REN-ISAC in 2002. While serving as REN-ISAC’s Executive Director from 2006 to 2014, he saw the 
organization grow from 60 to over 400 institutions, creating a community-oriented organization dedicated to providing 
critical threat information and risk mitigation options to research and education institutions.

Mark’s professional accomplishments also include serving as an adjunct professor of cybersecurity and other assurance 
topics in the IU School of Informatics and Computing and playing an important role in the creation of the IU Center for 
Applied Cybersecurity Research. He has also been an active member and participant in EDUCAUSE through writing, 
mentoring, presenting, and volunteering his time. In 2017, EDUCAUSE awarded Mark with the Community Leadership Award 
for “meritorious leadership and advocacy in higher education security and policy practices at the campus, state, and 
national levels; for leading the development of a national center for information sharing and analysis of higher 
education security issues; for mentorship and community-building within the security sector in service to higher 
education.”

For the past two years, the REN-ISAC staff and members have been privileged to work with Mark closely in his role as 
Peer Cybersecurity Assessment Engagement Manager. He has been instrumental in developing a program that allows higher 
education institutions to team up with seasoned technology and security professionals for in-depth evaluations of 
security operations, data management, identity management, governance, privacy, policies, incident response, and other 
cybersecurity concerns.

Dear Mark, you’ve been “reelin’ in the years; stowing away the time” with us here at REN-ISAC, and we all, staff and 
members alike, thank you for all you have done for our organization. It has been a privilege to work with you and learn 
from you. We are all sad to see you go, but we wish you a happy and relaxing retirement that gives you ample time to be 
with the ones you love and do the things you enjoy.

If you’d like to send well wishes to Mark for his retirement, please feel free to contact him at mbruhn () ren-isac 
net<mailto:mbruhn () ren-isac net>.

Best regards,
Kim Milford

Executive Director
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317-278-4815
www.ren-isac.net<http://www.ren-isac.net/>




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