(ISC)²® Board of Directors Elects 2015 Officersfrom (ISC)2
Global team of security professionals elected to lead governing body of world’s largest cybersecurity membership
Clearwater, Fla., January 29, 2015 — (ISC)²® (“ISC-squared”), the largest not-for-profit membership body of certified information and software security professionals worldwide, with over 100,000 members, today announced the newly elected officers for its Board of Directors. The 13-member Board provides governance and oversight for the organization, grants certifications to qualifying candidates, and enforces adherence to the (ISC)² Code of Ethics.
Effective January 24, 2015, the following individuals assumed Board officer positions:
Chairperson: Prof. Corey Schou, Ph.D., Fellow of (ISC)², CSSLP (U.S.A.)
Professor Corey Schou, Ph.D., Fellow of (ISC)², CSSLP, CCFP, HCISPP, is The University Professor of Informatics, professor of information systems and associate dean in the for the college of business computer information systems program at Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho, U.S.A. He also serves as the director of the National Information Assurance Training and Education Center (NIATEC) and the Informatics Research Institute (IRI). In addition, he is a founder and past board chairperson of the oldest computer security educators forum: the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE). He is a prolific author with hundreds of books, papers, articles and presentations. His latest book from McGraw Hill was co-authored with fellow board member Steve Hernandez. The book, Information Assurance Handbook: Effective Computer Security and Risk Management Strategies, has been well received by members of the profession. Prof. Schou is one of the seven founders of (ISC)² and was the compiler and editor of the original CBK® for (ISC)². He has recently returned from New Zealand after serving as a Fulbright Scholar at Waikato University. In 2001, he received the Harold F. Tipton Award, the highest award bestowed by (ISC)².
Vice Chairperson: Flemming Faber, CISSP (Denmark)
Flemming Faber has been working in information security since 1994. He is a senior advisor in the Network Security Division at the Danish Centre for Cyber Security under the Ministry of Defence where he is responsible for policy, strategy and international cooperation. Since obtaining the CISSP in 1999, he has been working as a security consultant and information security manager in international consultancy firms: Ramboll Management, ICL and Protect Data. In 2003, he joined the The Danish National IT and Telecom Agency, a Danish government agency where he was head of the IT security division until 2009. He was in charge of the information security strategy in relation to the general Danish eGovernment initiatives, the Danish government’s information security awareness campaigns, privacy initiatives and the development of information security standards for Danish government agencies. Mr. Faber was the main architect behind the establishment of the Danish GovCERT in 2009. Since 2006, he has been the Danish government’s representative on the board of ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency. From 1999 to 2009, Mr. Faber worked with (ISC)²’s international workshop, reviewing CISSP exam questions. He also served as exam supervisor in Europe from 1999 to 2006.
Treasurer: Diana-Lynn Contesti, CISSP-ISSAP, ISSMP, CSSLP, SSCP (Canada)
Diana-Lynn Contesti has 25 years of experience in information security. Currently, she is the chief information security officer for a Fortune 100 company headquartered in Luxembourg. In this role, Diana provides oversight of the information security program and develops standards and guidelines that are used internationally. Prior to joining the global staff, she provided information security best practices to the local organization, including developing policies, security awareness, forensic investigations and data classification schemas. Ms. Contesti has done many presentations on the security related to SCADA systems, as well as APT, UNIX security and securing Active Directory. She is also a published author of the Official (ISC)² Guide to the SSCP CBK (first edition). Ms. Contesti has been actively involved as an (ISC)² volunteer for the past 15 years, and championed the (ISC)² Foundation’s Women’s Scholarship program.
Secretary: Jennifer Minella, CISSP (U.S.A.)
Jennifer Minella is currently VP of engineering and consulting CISO with Carolina Advanced Digital, Inc. With more than 15 years’ experience working in the technology industry, Jennifer’s most recent focus is in specialized areas of infrastructure security, including network access control (NAC) and 802.1X, wireless security technologies, industrial security and SCADA. Most recently, she provided strategic security consulting for government agencies, educational institutions and Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 corporations. In addition to consulting and client project implementations, Mrs. Minella is an author, contributor and trusted media resource for information security topics. She was a contributing author of the (ISC)² Official CISSP Courseware v9 and a co-author of Low Tech Hacking. She is also a consulting faculty member of IANS Research, contributing author of technology publications, and a trusted technical advisor to editors and journalists across the U.S.A.
