The principal for ***** 71 has held Top Secret clearances while working for the US Government (USAF – National Security Agency) breaking codes and ciphers and performing Arabic language translations. He has worked in leadership positions at both corporate and government organizations such as EMC, Investors Bank & Trust, Hanover Insurance Group, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Marriott International, the United States Air Force and the United States Army National Guard.

He was awarded the 2007 RSA Conference award for Excellence in the Field of Security Practices. The internationally recognized RSA Conference Award for Excellence in the Field of Security Practices recognizes outstanding achievement in the practice of security within an organization. The judging committee seeks to recognize a security practitioner for their outstanding security program or initiative which has made significant contributions to improving the security posture and business processes at their organization. Previous winners include security executives from Nationwide Insurance and Bank of New York. His security team from Hanover Insurance also won the 2007 SC Magazine Award – Best Security Team competing against such organizations as Barclays Global and the Department of State.

Jeff sits on the Board of Directors, Boston Infragard; was a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance; is a member of the Cyber Security Forum Initiative, the RSA Conference Submission Selection Committee and formerly on the Customer Advisory Board for Chosen Security. Jeff published The Illusion of Due Diligence in 2010 and was a co-author for the Computer and Information Security Handbook, Understanding Computers, and has published articles for magazines such as The Intelligencer, CSO, and SC Magazine.

Mr. ***** is an adjunct professor at Utica College in Cyber Intelligence, Counterintelligence, Cybercrime, Cyber Terrorism and National Security and Critical Infrastructures and an adjunct professor at Clark University in Information Security for Masters programs. He holds a CISSP, CISM, NSA-IAM and has a bachelors degree in Middle East Studies and Arabic Language and a masters in Information Assurance. He currently holds a TS SSBI clearance and is active in Cyber Jihadist research and analysis. Jeff is also a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and author of the section on governance, risk and compliance.