Mark Sullivan, MSCS, CISM, CISSP | President & CEO

Mark has over 20 years of communications and information technology experience.  He is a former US Air Force Cyber Operations officer and Service-Disabled veteran, retiring from the service in 2010 after spending the last four years at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) as a Senior Security Manager and Engineer where he managed vulnerability assessments, independent verification and validation, and the digital forensic laboratory. 

After retirement, Mark took another government position as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the Defense Security Service where he created the Cyber Security Division to include the Plans, Policy and Training Branch, Certification and Engineering Branch, and Computer Network Defense Branch.

Previously, Mark founded and ran a very successful Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) company that serviced 7 towns in central California.  In this capacity, Mark experimented and was successful at layering several wireless security protocols, while minimizing quality of service degradation, creating what was called, "The most secure WISP in America."

Mark has a Masters degree in Computer Science, with emphasis in Information Assurance, from the Naval Postgraduate School.  He also holds several security certifications to include the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).