Ric Messier, GCIH, GSEC, CEH, CISSP, has spent decades in the fields of information security and information technology. He is currently the Director of Cyber Academic Programs at Circadence, a leader in innovative cybersecurity training platforms. He has spent previous lifetimes running security engineering teams at a global Internet service provider, created and managed graduate and undergraduate degree programs at a small school in New England, done security consulting for large and medium sized Fortune 500 companies and a variety of other jobs over the years. He has written several books on information security and digital forensics, as well as authored dozens of video training titles for O’Reilly Media and VTC.