Matthew E. Luallen, CISSP, CCIE, GIAC (Co-Founder)

• "Discover to understand assets, Realize to create value, Maintain to preserve quality and Protect to assure trust." --m. luallen, 2008
• "It is important to realize what you know, it is essential to realize what you do not know." --m. luallen, 2005
• "We must secure our commercial infrastructure as quickly as possible so that we are prepared for internetworked home appliances. I do not want a hacker in my toaster!" --m. luallen, 2000

Matthew E. Luallen is a well-respected information security professional, researcher, instructor and author. Mr. Luallen serves as a Co-Founder of Encari, a critical infrastructure information security consulting company. He consults with both governmental and commercial sectors, including a multi-client base of public utilities and other power market organizations, national laboratories, financial institutions, and law enforcement. He has written, consulted and trained extensively on process control and SCADA security issues. He worked with utilities and regional reliability organizations on compliance with first the NERC 1200 standard, and in recent years with NERC CIP. For NERC CIP, he has performed gap analyses and developed and implemented remediation strategies across all of the standards and a wide variety of Critical Cyber Assets. Prior to incorporating Encari, Mr. Luallen provided strategic guidance for Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, within the Information Architecture and Cyber Security Program Office.

In an effort to promote education and collaboration in information security Mr. Luallen is an instructor and faculty at several institutions. Mr. Luallen is adjunct faculty for DePaul University instructing the Computer Information and Network Security Masters degree capstone course. He is also a certified instructor and CCIE for Cisco Systems instructing security technologies such as firewalls, intrusion prevention, virtual private networks and general secure information architecture. As a certified instructor for the SANS Institute Mr. Luallen teaches infrastructure architecture, wireless security, web application security, regulatory and standards compliance, and security essentials. Mr. Luallen is a graduate of National Technological University with a Master's Degree in Computer Science, Mr. Luallen also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana.