The NDI faculty is comprised of exceptional practioners chosen for their special expertise and PRACTICAL experiences. Their contributions include both instructional as well as hands-on applications. They are principally technical and have an interest in teaching as well as internal controls. 

Dr. Eugene Schultz, Ph.D., CISSP is a Principal Engineer with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and also teaches computer science courses at the University of California at Berkeley. An expert in a variety of areas within information security, he is the author of three books and 90 papers and Editor-in-Chief of _Information Security Bulletin_, a professional journal. He has received the Information Systems Security Association Professional Contribution Award and the NASA Technical Excellence Award. While at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he founded the Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) for the U.S. Department of Energy, and has testified before both U.S. Senate and House of Representatives subcommittees on various security-related issues.

Mike Schiffman, Mike Schiffman is Director of Research and Development at Guardent, Inc. He has researched and developed many cutting-edge technologies, such as the tools firewalk and tracerx. He wrote the widely used and acclaimed low-level, packet-shaping library libnet. He has been involved with nearly every technical field in computer security, and frequently publishes in professional papers and venues. Mike is a highly sought after speaker on technical security issues.  

Nehemiah Chriss, NDI associate faculty, is a practicing technical security expert with substantial experience in network security, scanning of systems and penetration techniques. He was a computer security engineer for a major network solutions firm in Central California. He performed network security consulting, audits, policy reviews, firewall installations and maintenance as well as O/S attack and penetration reviews. Skilled in Unix system administration, Pascal, C, Unix, shell programming, Win NT, ethernet, TCP/IP based networking, routing, client server models and IP addressing topology. He worked as a Systems Administrator at UC Santa Barbara Astrophysics Lab in NT 4.0/Netware and other systems. He also served as a security auditor for NASA controlled systems. He is currently a Network Security Engineer for an applications service provider.

Tom Cannon, NDI associate faculty, is the security director for one of the largest and most complex networks connected to the web. The company he works for is one of the top ten web based businesses on line. His network receives approximately 100 intrusion attempts each day as well as Trojans and viruses that attempt to run DoS attacks against them. His experience has allowed him to develop solutions to deal with these attacks and make it as difficult as possible for anyone to access the site to take it off-line, change or delete data while still allowing access by employees. Tom also has practical experience in tracking intruders of other systems, including military and government computers. His tracking has enabled numerous arrests and convictions. 

Peter Dyer, NDI senior faculty, with extraordinary experience in Security Management and Technology Protection Planning. Experience ranges from small Air Force support programs to the National Aerospace Plane. He has instructed for NDI for several years.

Johnny Long, NDI associate faculty, is an experienced, practicing IT security specialist, investigator and accomplished penetration specialist for sensitive and classified DoD systems. He has exceptional experience in forensics investigations and has instructed for NDI students including: Canadian, Australian and U.S. space and defense industry, Department of Justice and NASA. He was the forensics analyst for a number of DoD cases: The Analyzer and the Cloverdale Hackers. 

Richard Rudman, CBS Radio, Los Angeles, CA., is the lead in the L.A. County/City area for Media Crisis Management under the Community Emergency Planning Organization.

Jim Settle, first Chief of FBI Computer Crimes, who has investigated numerous computer crimes cases and is featured in the popular book, @Large, about recorded Hacker cases.

Christopher P. Berlandier was responsible for the technical implementation of SSI products and services. He also served as IT Director responsible for the delivery of the Template Security Database software where he had the lead role in programming for the Security Assurance Manager software. His past credentials include 9 years of programming experience. He was VP and then CEO for two IT companies where he developed cutting edge software and delivery systems for recording artists across the nation for all record labels.

He designed and managed the application for the Front-end delivery systems, which use Internet capabilities, desktop client/server systems in VB and 4D and back-end RDBMS Oracle and Microsoft technologies. In this program these services are distributed by a nationwide WAN supporting replication and monitoring main facilities located in Los Angeles & New York City.

Mr. Berlandier conducted the programming tasks for the security planning and audit database technology applications utilizing cutting edge approaches to provide real time asset management, previously unavailable security accountability and dynamic enterprise management capabilities. His technical proficiencies span the spectrum of software applications and include Oracle, XML and virtually all-programming languages.

He demonstrated exceptional acumen in the successful development and implementation of four technology- based companies.

Fred J Villella, is the Executive Director of New Dimensions International (NDI) a Security Services small business located in California. NDI is recognized for its record of leading technology initiatives for government and industry, including development of the: original GSA security curriculum, PL 100-235 training program, a DoD Security Engineering and NASA Computer Security Officials certification training programs & Intruder Defenses training delivered nationwide & overseas.

The NDI "Security Assurance Manager"™ represents THE leading technology in Template-based database, software-driven technology that for the first time actually RECORDS security status of systems, uses Asset Management & owner interfaces and incorporates the requirements of OMB A130 and common best practices security planning requirements at the IT levels.

Fred is a retired military officer and former presidential appointee having served as the Executive Director of a Federal Agency with sweeping Emergency Powers and as the Executive Secretary to the President's National Security Advisor for Emergency Mobilization.

Winn Schwartau, one of the country's leading experts on information security, infrastructure protection and electronic privacy is often referred to as "the civilian architect of information warfare." He coined the term "Electronic Pearl Harbor" and was the Project Lead of the Manhattan Cyber Project Information Warfare and Electronic Civil Defense Team. Today, he balances his time between writing, lecturing, building corporate and national security awareness programs and consulting. Mr. Schwartau is a popular and entertaining keynote speaker and interactive seminar leader who always keeps his audiences awake with thought provoking insights and commentary.

Jim McMahon is the Director of Global Security for Applied Materials, Inc. Applied Materials is the world leader in semiconductor manufacturing equipment and operates globally from a base of 113 locations in 14 nations worldwide. Jim is responsible for the protection of People - Intellectual Property - Facilities, supervising a staff in 16 different time zones. Previously, Jim was the supervisor of the nationally recognized San Jose Police Department's High Technology Crime Detail and has been called upon as an expert in Federal, State and local courts nationwide and many other countries. He appeared on CBS' 60 Minutes, Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, the Nightly News and Unsolved Mysteries. He has also written for the New York Times Magazine, and he has been featured in People magazine, The Wall Street Journal and Business Week.

Jim currently serves as a Trustee of the Technology Theft Prevention Foundation and represents SEMI to the Attorney General's Task Force on High Technology Crime. He has lectured worldwide and served as a founder and Past President of the High Technology Investigators Association. He developed a substantial track record in accomplishing the organizational development of Applied Materials Global Security program, one of the world's premier programs.

Ray Ricks pioneered information security development at Citibank. He is a recognized expert in physical security, investigations, privacy and identity theft and has directed programs in these disciplines on a global scale. Other areas of experience include Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), electronic payment methodologies, Smart Card technology as well as business continuity and disaster recovery practices.

Ron Tencati was with Cylink since January, In 1996. He moved to Signa an Encryption organization which was purchased by ENTRUST in March 2000, where he currently serves as program staff, Technical Course Developer and Instructor for their PKI and Cryptographic training courses. 

Ron has an extensive career background in computer and network security. He is one of the co-founders and former steering committee member of The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST). He also held the offices of President and Chief Financial Officer of FIRST.ORG, Inc. 

Ron was the co-founder and project manager of NASA's agency-wide Computer security incident response team, NASIRC. He has also served as the security manager for NASA's global DECnet and TCP/IP networks. He is a recipient of two NASA Group Achievement Awards, as well as a past Recipient of FEDSECURITY's "Unsung Heroes in Computer Security" Award.

John W. Lenoir, a former NASA IT Security Manager, is a professional IT Security Engineer with substantial experience in IT Security and System Security Engineering. He has worked with NASA and a number of commercial organizations and is recognized as a manager and specialist in IT Security and associated research and development functions.

Randall Kizer, has managed IT Security for several large organizations and is currently the Information Security Officer for Callaway Golf Company in Carlsbad, CA. He has implemented and remotely managed security systems spanning several continents in "high risk" environments, and has spoken to colleges and universities on IT security issues and "best practices". Randall is known for taking complex technical issues and presenting them in a simple way that anyone can understand.

William Knowles is an accomplished security instructor, open-source intelligence analyst and consultant. He has co-authored Applied Maximum Network Secuity for NDI with his pioneering use of question and answer sessions with Internet hackers on IRC. He is respected and well-known throughout the computer underground. William was recently featured on Fox News Channel, The Orlando Sentintel and Playboy.com on Internet Cyber Security. He is currently working on an information security portal project dealing with global risk management. 

Chris Jordan is an accomplished technical specialist whose primary interests lie with Intrusion Detection architectures and associated systems. He had taught IDS Systems for SANS and applies these systems routinely in his work.

Michael M. Price has a number of Technical Proficiencies in COMPUTER SECURITY with technical knowledge of popular operating system security architectures, vulnerability assessment and response and general computer security practices.