CISSP, CRISC, SMIEEE
Dr. John D. Johnson is CEO and Founder Aligned Security. He is also a founding board member of the Security Advisor Alliance (501c.3), a member of SC Media Editorial Board, and serves on CISO advisory boards and non-profit boards. John is a professor at Excelsior College and SANS Analyst, where he delivers webinars and targeted research white papers on technology and trends in information security. John works with the CISO Collaborative, a private education and information sharing association for security executives.
John spent nearly 18 years as security architect for a Fortune 100 global manufacturing company, where he managed security infrastructure and developed strategy and secure architecture solutions for protecting a global corporate network, endpoints, industrial systems and the supply chain. His experience spans the public and private sectors, as well as industry verticals: technology, manufacturing, finance, energy, healthcare, education. John was previously network security manager for the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and an experimental nuclear physicist developing radiation systems for nuclear remediation and non-proliferation.
John has developed and taught numerous graduate cybersecurity courses and helped Develop the CISO executive certificate program with University of Chicago, Booth School of Management. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and serves as program committee member for RSA Conference and Black Hat. John is founder and program chair for CornCon, an annual Midwestern cybersecurity conference and kids’ hacker camp. Over his career, he has served in leadership roles in technical and professional societies, including IEEE, InfraGard and (ISC)2. John has maintained his CISSP and CRISC certifications and has received various awards in recognition of his contribution to the profession. He was runner up for 2014 Chicago CISO of the Year, he is also an IEEE Senior Member (SMIEEE), Charter Member of FAIR Institute and Distinguished Fellow of Ponemon Institute. Visit www.johndjohnson.com to learn about his current projects and activities.