TAKING THE REINS: David Carey

Vice president of Oracle's Information Assurance Center in Reston, Va. Sept. 4 57 Rochester, N.Y. Vienna, Va. Married, one daughter "In the Shadow of the Ayatollah: A CIA Hostage in Iran," by William Daugherty; "Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government ? Saving Privacy in the Digital Age," by Steven Levy - David Roberts - Linda Ronstadt - Peter Hopkirk - Judi Dench - Reading, woodworking, stained glass - Earl Klugh, "Life Stories" and "The Best of Chuck Mangione" Busara, Tysons Corner; Thai - "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right." - My grandfather - "Law and Order" - Spain; most frequently visited - Outer Banks, N.C. "Don't screw up!"Bachelor of science, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.Master of business administration, University of Delaware, Newark, Del. Central Intelligence Agency from June 29, 1969, until Sept. 3, 2001. Served in numerous analytic, operational and managerial positions, including director of the Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis, and director of the DCI Crime and Narcotics Center. For most of the last four years, served as the agency's executive director, frequently described as the chief operating official or No. 3 position in the CIA; responsible for everything from strategic planning to daily operations."Unfortunately, the events of Sept. 11 have magnified the need for the work of the the center in a way that none of us could have predicted or would have wished. Those events have added intensity to the center's activities and shifted its priorities somewhat. No longer is it necessary to demonstrate the need for information assurance to include the capability to protect data from being lost as the result of a catastrophic event. Instead, there is a premium on helping the government and the private sector use the technologies embedded in Oracle products to secure their information and to advance the technologies that can be applied to information assurance problems. "In our Information Assurance Center, we will inform customers about prevention, detection, crisis management and consequence management and provide a test bed for security, business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.""To make the maximum contribution possible."