Dr. Samuel Liles has been an enlisted soldier, marine, law enforcement officer, infosec industry leader, professor, CISO, and senior member of the intelligence community. Sam has a doctoral degree from Purdue University, and his dissertation was titled “Cyber warfare as a form of conflict: Evaluation of models of cyber conflict as a prototype to conceptual analysis”
His industry and technology career spans missile systems, space-based systems, ship and yacht navionics, manufacturing, industrial control systems, mainframe computing, telecommunications management, cloud services, and information technology & security management. He consults on cyber conflict, information operations, technology-mediated communications, information technology, security, and incident response with various entities around the globe.
He has held academic appointments as a tenured Associate Professor at Purdue and at the National Defense University in the Information Resources Management College. He has taught and mentored military officers and the civilian CIOs and CISOs of the federal government and industry. He taught in Europe and China and lectured in numerous countries.
He has always focused on “doing” more than “writing,” but he has scribbled out a few things. He is a (co)author of 2 books, 3 book chapters, 7 peer-reviewed journal articles, 2 Amici Curiae, 14 conference proceedings, 8 technical papers, a technical editor on 3 books, and about a gazillion blog posts. He has presented at numerous conferences, had the honor to be a featured speaker, and has been interviewed many times on regional and national news programs. Sam testified in front of Congress multiple times and has briefed Congress and various presidents.
In his spare time, Sam picked up a USCG 50-ton master/mate credential along with sailing and towing certificates. He has attended multiple courses on sailing and navigation.
Dr. Liles lives and works off the grid aboard EOTI, a sailboat at an undisclosed location with his wife, twin sons, and an over-eager labrador retriever named Hazel since 2018. He currently sails the east coast of the United States and Caribbean full time. He can be found blogging here on sveoti.net and other locations around the Internet.