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What I do as a consultant:

My motto in consulting is Progress Towards Autonomy*: I generally ask to work closely with someone from the client organization who will learn why I am approaching problems as I do and who will be able to carry the knowledge and methodology into the organization permanently after I finish the contract.

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not a "just" a security consultant: I'm an operations management consultant and statistician whose security expertise threatens to consume my professional life. So, with no particular rank or order, here are some of the ways I am useful to consulting clients:

• Operations management analysis and optimization
• Facilities security assessments
• Security policy assessment, development and improvement
• Organizational dynamics: analysis of problems, resolution of conflicts [using Real-Time Notes (TM), Computer-Aided Consensus (TM) and Computer-Aided Thematic Analysis (TM)]
• Experimental design and analysis: biological, social and physical sciences
• Market research: survey design and analysis, focus groups, interviews
• Technical writing and editing: white papers, journalism, textbooks, RFPs, prospectuses for new companies
• Medical informatics:
• Course development and delivery (for in situ and online applications)
• Membership in Advisory Boards for new corporations in information technology

~300 words about me (third person for use in conference bios and the like):

M. E. Kabay began programming computers in assembly language in 1965. In 1976, he received his PhD from Dartmouth College in applied statistics and invertebrate zoology and taught biology, statistics and programming as a university professor in Canada and overseas. In 1979, he joined a compiler team for a new 4GL and RDBMS in the U.S. and then joined Hewlett-Packard Canada in 1980 as an operating systems and database performance specialist, winning the Systems Engineer of the Year Award in 1982. He earned his CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) designation in 1997. He served as Director of Education for the National Computer Security Association (NCSA, later ICSA and then TruSecure) from 1990 to 1999 and then worked with AtomicTangerine where he supported the International Institute for Information Integrity® (I-4®). Since 1986, he has published over 950 articles in operations management and security, written a college textbook on enterprise security (McGraw-Hill, 1996), and served as Technical Editor of the 4th Edition of the Computer Security Handbook (Wiley, 2002). He writes two security-management columns a week distributed by Network World and is working on the 5th Edition of the Computer Security Handbook. He has been an invited lecturer at the United States War College, NATO HQ, and at NATO Counterintelligence training in Germany. He was inducted into the ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) Hall of Fame in December 2004 and earned his ISSMP (Information Systems Security Management Professional) designation in November 2005. Dr Kabay is Associate Professor of Information Assurance in the School of Business and Management at Norwich University, Northfield, VT 05663-1035 USA and currently the full-time Director of the Master's Program in Information Assurance in the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) where he is also the CTO (Chief Technical Officer) of the SGS.

CV, honors, publications (including hot links) and teaching...

...in a single very large PDF printable file for those prepared to wade through the detail. PDF
 

HTML List of publications with hyperlinks (where available)(updated periodically)

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* This was the motto of my company, JINBU CORPORATION, in Canada from 1986 through 1998 when I closed it upon moving to the United States.