He has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry in general and IT Security in particular, and has worked extensively as a consultant, developer and evangelist across all industries and virtually all major areas of IT and security technology. He has spoken at dozens of industry and vendor IT and Security events, and has written over 20 whitepapers for EMC and RSA. John is also a CISSP and has held certifications in several other areas, including disaster recovery, Microsoft technology and project management.