 As well, Teufel headed the cyber subcommittee, part of the CIO Council's privacy committee.The subcommittee focuses on the privacy aspects of CNCI.As part of his office's outreach and education mission, Teufel spoke frequently about the department and privacy at conferences at home and abroad, including the 2008 Iberoamerican Data Protection Network meeting in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, and the November 2007 EU Conference on Public Security, Privacy and Technology in Brussels.