Donald WithersDonald P. Withers is the CEO and cofounder of TheTrainingCo., which produces the Annual International Techno Security & Techno Forensic Conferences each year. Don has an extensive background in Information Security and was a member of the management eam at Ernst & Young's Information Security Services practice for the mid-Atlantic region. He also served as the Director of Information Security for Bell Atlantic, where he championed the development of a corporate incident response team and implemented their war room facility used for managing investigations, vulnerability testing, and forensic analysis.

He also served as a voting member of the American National Standards Institute Committee T1 for nine years developing and representing Bell Atlantic's positions on computer and network security. He was the Sub-working group Secretary and Technical Editor for the committee that was instrumental in developing several of the first telecommunications standards in North America relating to network security.

Don was the cofounder and two-term president of the Maryland Chapter of InfraGard and is a member of the Secret Service's Electronic Crimes Task Force. He was the cofounder and two-term President of the mid-Atlantic Chapter of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association, and he has served as secretary for its National Board of Directors. He is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security, the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, and the Academy of Security Educators and Trainers, where he earned the academy's designation of Certified Security Trainer. Don is also a member of the Nine Lives Associates and has earned its designation of Personal Protection Specialist from the Executive Protection Institute. He has attended the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glenco, GA, and has a Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland. Read More Read Less