Mr.Ross A Leo

Mr. Ross Leo has been in Information System for 38 years and an Information Security Professional for over 36 years. He has worked internationally as a Systems Analyst/Engineer and as a Security and Privacy Consultant. His past employers include IBM, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Computer Sciences Corporation and Rockwell International. A NASA contractor for 22 years, from 1998 to 2002 he was Director of Security Engineering and Chief Security Architect for Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center. From 2002 to 2006 Mr. Leo was the Director of Information Systems and Chief Information Security Officer for the Managed Care Division of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. 

Upon attaining his CISSP license in 1997, he joined ISC2 (a professional role) as Chairman of the Curriculum Development Committee and served in this role until 2004. During this time, he formulated and directed the effort that produced what became and remains the standard curriculum used to train CISSP candidates worldwide. He has maintained his professional standards as a professional educator and has since trained and certified nearly 7200 CISSP candidates since 1998 and nearly 2400 in HIPAA compliance certification since 2004.  

Ross is a member of the Editorial Board for Auerbach Publishing and Homeland Security Magazine (ABCHS). Mr. Leo’s industry guide, “The HIPAA Program Reference Handbook”, was published in January 2005. He is Series Editor and contributor for the “Critical Infrastructure Protection and Cybersecurity Engineering Series” for CRC Press. In 2016 he provided the definitive entry on HIPAA/HITECH for the Encyclopedia of Information Technology, also by CRC Press.

He is a member of The Project Management Institute (PMI) and the American Board of Forensic Engineering and Technology (ABFET) for The American College of Forensic Examiners Institute (ACFEI). Mr. Leo has been accorded Fellow status for the American Board for Certification in Homeland Security (ABCHS). Mr. Leo attended Graduate School at the University of Houston and Undergraduate school at Southern Illinois University.