Charles Pfleeger

Charles P. Pfleeger Pfleeger Consulting Group

Charles P. Pfleeger is an independent consultant with the Pfleeger Consulting Group, specializing in computer and information system security. Among his responsibilities are threat and vulnerability analysis, risk analysis, system security design and review, certification preparation, training, expert testimony and general security advice. His customers include government and commercial clients throughout the world.

Previously a Master Security Architect on the staff of the Chief Security Officer of Cable and Wireless, and Exodus Communications, Dr. Pfleeger has also held the positions of Senior Computer Scientist and Director of Research for Arca Systems, Director of European Operations for Trusted Information Systems, Inc. (TIS), and a professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Tennessee.

Dr. Pfleeger was chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy from 1997-1999 and has been a member of the executive council of that committee from 1993 to 2004. He is on the board of reviewers for Computers and Security, and was a member of the editorial board of IEEE Security and Privacy, and the board of advisors for OWASP, the Open Web Application Security Project.

An international lecturer, Dr. Pfleeger has published numerous papers and books. His latest book, Analyzing Computer Security: A Threat–Vulnerability–Countermeasure Approach (co-authored with Dr. Shari Lawrence Pfleeger), will be published by Prentice-Hall in August, 2011. He is the author of other books and articles on technical computer security and computer science topics.

He holds a Ph.D. degree in computer science from The Pennsylvania State University and a B.A. with honors in mathematics from Ohio Wesleyan University. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).