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John D. Johnson, Ph.D., CISSP
john@johndjohnson.com
Biography
Dr. Johnson is currently a senior security manager for John Deere. He manages technical security programs across more than 130 John Deere business units in 160 countries worldwide. John has been responsible for architecting solutions that have been critical to maintaining global network security at John Deere. Prior to working at John Deere, John was security manager for the Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
John is a frequent lecturer on computer security topics and member of CISO peer groups, industry panels and advisory councils. John has spoken at Black Hat, RSA Conference, SC Magazine World Congress and many other events. John has maintained his Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP) certification since 2000. He served on the organizing committee for the RSA Conference, the world's largest information security conference, and has been involved in organizing many other events and conferences and is currently a member of the Board of Governors for the 2011 Chicago CISO Summit.
John received his B.S. in physics from Michigan Technological University, his M.S. in physics from Michigan State University, where he worked at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, and his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from The University of Texas at Austin, where he worked at LAMPF on medium-energy physics experiments. He has developed computer security courses for ITT-Tech and Walden University and serves as an adjunct professor at St. Ambrose University and Scott Community College, where he has developed undergraduate and graduate courses on information assurance, computer security, astronomy and computer ethics. John is currently developing cybersecurity courses and serves as an adjunct faculty member for Excelsior College. He is currently an Advisory Board Member for The University of Advancing Technology. John is Past- President (2010-2011) and Director (2011-2013) of the Quad City Engineering and Science Council where he is active with over 30 area organizations in promoting science and engineering to students and the general public, through STEM outreach programs and professional development activities. John has been an author on 44 scientific papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals and for scientific conferences.
John is active in several professional science and engineering organizations, including: IEEE, ISC2, American Astronomical Society, American Physical Society, American Association of Physics Teachers, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Sigma Xi and InfraGard. John has served as Member-at-Large, Secretary, Treasurer, Vice-Chair and Chair of the Iowa-Illinois Section of IEEE. He is founder and past-chair of the IEEE Iowa-Illinois Computer Society chapter and he serves as IEEE Region 4 Awards Chairman. John served as a board member for the InfraGard Springfield chapter (2009-2011).
John has 5+ years of experience as an Advanced Mastery Performance Coach at John Deere and he is currently a mentor with the Career Navigator program for Big Brothers/Big Sisters and United Way in the Quad Cities. John is a member of Engineers without Borders, Engineering for Change and Scientists without Borders, where he volunteers for various humanitarian projects. John was inducted as a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow in 2007, was awarded QCESC Senior Scientist of the Year for 2008, and was named Jack Sherman Outstanding Member for his contributions to IEEE Region 4 in 2010. John enjoys website design, photography and blogging about security, science and skepticism on his website and lives in Bettendorf, Iowa.
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