About Charles Wood

Charles Cresson Wood, Esq. JD, MBA, MSE, CISSP, CISM, CISA, CGEIT, CIPP/US is an author, researcher, attorney, and management consultant based in Mendocino, California (www.infosecurityinfrastructure.com). In the information security and privacy field on a full-time basis since 1979, he has worked as an information security management consultant at SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute), as well as lead network security consultant at Bank of America. He has done information security consulting work with over 125 organizations, many of them Fortune 500 companies, including a significant number of financial institutions and high-tech companies. His consulting work has taken him to over twenty different countries around the world.

He is a licensed California attorney, and has a JD degree (in law) from St. Francis School of Law. He holds an MBA in financial information systems and a BSE in accounting from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds an MSE in computer science from the Moore School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also passed the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) examination in California, but is not certified to practice as a CPA, nor does he hold himself out as a CPA. He is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He is also Certified in the Governance of Enterprise Information Technology (CGEIT) and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US). He has additionally received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Computer Security Institute for his “sincere dedication to the computer security profession.”