Wm. Arthur Conklin, Ph.D., Security+, CISSP, is an Assistant Professor in the Information and Logistics Technology department at the University of Houston. In addition to his PhD, Mr. Conklin has a MBA from UTSA, and two graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Dr. Conklin's interests are information security, systems theory, and secure software design. Conklin is the lead author of the CompTIA Security+(R) All-in-One Exam Guide, Third Edition and the Principles of Computer Security: Security+ and Beyond, Second Edition.

Dan Shoemaker, Ph.D., is the Director of the Centre for the Software Assurance Institute, a National Security Agency (NSA) Center of Academic Excellence, at the University of Detroit Mercy. He is also a Professor at UDM where he has been the Chair of Computer and Information Systems since 1985. Dr. Shoemaker is Co-Chair of the Workforce Training and Education working group within the Department of Homeland Security's National Cybersecurity Division (NCSD).