Dr. Herbert J. Mattord, CISM, Ph.D., CISSP, completed 24 years of IT industry experience as an application developer, project manager, database administrator, and information security practitioner before joining the faculty at Kennesaw State University, where he is Associate Professor of Information Security and Assurance program and Assistant Chair of the Department of Information Systems.

Herbert currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Information Security and Assurance as well as Information Systems.