Dr. Harris has a Doctorate in Information Assurance and Cybersecurity and 35+ years of network and security experience.   Dr. Harris is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and has spent 12 years in academia teaching Computer Security at the University of North Carolina.  Dr. Harris is a founding member of the Retail Cyber Information Sharing Center.  He currently serves on the Cyber Security Scholarship Review Board for ISC2 and is an active member of FBI InfraGard.  He is the past President of the ISC2 Chapter in Greensboro, NC, and is a former member of the National Security Council for the US Chamber of Commerce.  He is Research Fellow for ICIT, a think tank which provides strategic guidance to the federal government in the 16 Critical Infrastructure sectors. Dr. Harris is a security evangelist, author, and international speaker. He has spoken on Capitol Hill, academically and professionally for more than 32+ years.