Lead Author

Jack Wiles, (PPS, IAM, IEM) is a Security Professional with over 30 years experience in security related fields. This includes computer security, disaster recovery and physical security. He is a professional member of the National Speakers Association and has trained federal agents, corporate attorneys and internal auditors on a number of computer crime related topics. He is a pioneer in presenting on a number of subjects that are now being labeled ‘Homeland Security’ topics. Well over 10,000 people have attended one or more of his presentations since 1988. Jack is also a co-founder and President of TheTrainingCo., producers of the Annual Techno Security Conferences and the popular Techno Forensics conferences. He is in frequent contact with members of many state and local law enforcement agencies as well as Special Agents with the U.S. Secret Service, FBI, U.S. Customs, Department of Justice, The Department of Defense and numerous members of High-Tech Crime units. He was also appointed as the first President of the North Carolina InfraGard chapter that is now one of the largest chapters in the country. He is also a founding member and ‘official’ MC of the US Secret Service South Carolina Electronic Crimes Task Force.

Jack is also a Vietnam veteran who served with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam in 1967–68. He recently retired from the U.S. Army Reserves as a lieutenant colonel and was assigned directly to the Pentagon for the final seven years of his career. In his spare time, he has been a senior contributing editor for several local, national and international magazines.

This is the fifth book published by Syngress that we have been a part of in the last 18 months. I’m in our friend Johnny Long’s camp in acknowledging that I can do nothing without the help of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I dedicate my small part of this book to Him, my wonderful wife of 30 years (long years for her) Valerie, and my son Tyler as he heads off to college. I’m very proud of you son. My partner Don Withers is like a brother to me in every way. For ten years now, we have been fortunate to produce our Techno Security and our popular Techno Forensics conferences, which have had attendees register from over 45 countries around the world. I wish that I had space to thank all of the other authors of this book. I know them all well, and have known some of them for more than two decades. These are some of the most respected and talented security minds in the world, and I am honored to have my work in the same book as theirs. And last, but certainly not least, I’d like to thank the thousands of friends who have become Techno groupies at our annual events. Many of them have traveled from half the world away to spend a few days with us each year. THANK YOU! - Jack

Jack wrote Chapter 1, “Physical Security: SCADA and the Critical Infrastructure’s Biggest Vulnerability.”