Wm. Arthur Conklin - CSSLP Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional All-in-One Exam Guide, Third Edition

Wm. Arthur Conklin, PhD, CompTIA Security+, CISSP, CSSLP, GISCP, GCFA, GCIA, GRID, GCIP, CRISC, CASP, is a professor and director of the Center for Information Security Research and Education in the College of Technology at the University of Houston. He holds two terminal degrees, a PhD in business administration (specializing in information security) from The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and a degree in electrical engineering (specializing in space systems engineering) from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is a fellow of ISSA and (CS)2AI and a senior member of ASQ, IEEE, and ACM. Dr. Conklins research interests lie in the areas of critical infrastructure cybersecurity. He has coauthored numerous books on information security and has written and presented numerous conference and academic journal papers. He has more than 20 years of teaching experience at the college level and has assisted in building two information security programs that have been recognized by the National Security Agency (NSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyberdefense Education.

Dan Shoemaker, PhD (University of Detroit Mercy), is a professor and the director of the Graduate Program in Cybersecurity at UDMs Center for Cyber Security and Intelligence Studies. This center includes the NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education. Dr. Shoemaker is a full-time professor, with 26 years as department chair. Dr. Shoemaker was one of the earliest academic participants in the development of software engineering as a discipline, starting at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in the fall of 1987. As the co-chair for the DHS National Workforce Training and Education Initiative for Software and Supply Chain Assurance, he is one of the three authors of the Software Assurance Common Body of Knowledge (CBK). Dr. Shoemaker is a Michigan man at heart, having received his degrees at the University of Michigan. He was named a Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE in 2020. He has written 12 books in the field and has more than 200 publications. He speaks extensively on security topics, both in the United States and internationally. He also served as an SME for the Securely Provision Knowledge Area for both versions of the NIST-NICE workforce framework. Finally, he recently served as an SME for the ACM Joint Committees CSEC2017. He does all of this with the help and support of his wife, Tamara.

Brian Barta, CISM, CSSLP, CISSP, CRISC, CISA, CCSK, CCSP, GROL, CEH, LSSBB, GIAC-GCIH, MCSE, is a proven leader with global security program management experience and a reputation for delivering enhanced results through the strategic implementation of organizational information security technology and process transformation. He has served as the director of Cloud Security Governance, Risk and Compliance for SaaS Cloud Security at Oracle, as well as the manager of Group Healths Governance, Risk and Compliance program where he established a program that aligned to business risks and is understood by business partners. Prior to supporting Group Healths success, he spent three years as the vulnerability management and advisory services security manager for T-Mobile improving the operational effectiveness and efficiencies of the program. Dr. Barta has more than 20 years of hands-on, in-the-weeds information security experience as well as the plain-speak, seasoned management buy-in skills required for security success in federal, state, and private industries. His passion is the measurable improvement of information security and regulatory compliance programs with a focus on security enablement of the business teams. He enjoys finding the problems and working with folks to fix them. He has also served as the chief information security officer at Washington States Employment Security Department, information technology security architect at Washington States Department of Corrections, and a variety of information security roles for the Department of Defense. His personal motto is If you do what you love, youll never work a day in your life. You can reach out to him via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/informationsecurityleadership.