Mike Chapple, Ph.D., CISSP is an author of the best-selling CISSP (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Study Guide, Sybex, 2015, now in its seventh edition. He is an information security professional with two decades of experience in higher education, the private sector, and government.
Mike currently serves as Senior Director for IT Service Delivery at the University of Notre Dame. In this role, he oversees the information security, data governance, IT architecture, project management, strategic planning, and product management functions for Notre Dame. Mike also serves as a concurrent assistant professor in the university’s Computing and Digital Technologies department, where he teaches undergraduate courses on information security.
Before returning to Notre Dame, Mike served as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of the Brand Institute, a Miami-based marketing consultancy. Mike also spent four years in the information security research group at the National Security Agency and served as an active duty intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force.
He is a technical editor for Information Security Magazine and has written 20 books, including Cyberwarfare: Information Operations in a Connected World (Jones & Bartlett, 2015), the CompTIA Security+ Training Kit (Microsoft Press, 2013), and the CISSP Study Guide (Sybex, 7th edition, 2015).
Mike earned both his BS and Ph.D. degrees from Notre Dame in computer science & engineering. He also holds an MS in computer science from the University of Idaho and an MBA from Auburn University.
David Seidl CISSP is the Senior Director for Campus Technology Services at the University of Notre Dame. As the Senior Director for CTS, David is responsible for central platform and operating system support, database administration and services, identity and access management, application services, and email and digital signage. Prior to his current role, he was Notre Dame’s Director of Information Security.
David teaches a popular course on networking and security for Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. In addition to his professional and teaching roles, he has co-authored the CompTIA Security+ Training Kit (Microsoft Press, 2013) and Cyberwarfare: Information Operations in a Connected World (Jones & Bartlett, 2015), and served as the technical editor for the 6th (Sybex, 2012) and 7th (Sybex, 2015) editions of the CISSP Study Guide. David holds a bachelor’s degree in communication technology and a master’s degree in information security from Eastern Michigan University, as well as CISSP, GPEN, and GCIH certifications.