About the Authors
Mike Chapple, Ph.D., CySA+, is author of the best-selling CISSP (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Study Guide (Sybex, 2021) and the CISSP (ISC)2 Official Practice Tests (Sybex, 2021). He is an information technology professional with two decades of experience in higher education, the private sector, and government.
Mike currently serves as a teaching professor in the IT, Analytics, and Operations department at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on cybersecurity, data management, and business analytics.
Before returning to Notre Dame, Mike served as executive vice president and chief information officer of the Brand Institute, a Miami-based marketing consultancy. Mike also spent four years in the information security research group at the National Security Agency and served as an active duty intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force.
Mike has written more than 30 books. He earned both his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Notre Dame in computer science and engineering. Mike also holds an M.S. in computer science from the University of Idaho and an MBA from Auburn University.
Learn more about Mike and his other certification materials at CertMike.com.
Sharif Nijim is an assistant teaching professor in the IT, Analytics, and Operations department at the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in business analytics and information technology.
Prior to Notre Dame, Sharif co-founded and served on the board of a customer data integration company serving the airline industry. Sharif also spent more than a decade building and optimizing enterprise-class transactional and decision support systems for clients in the energy, healthcare, hospitality, insurance, logistics, manufacturing, real estate, telecommunications, and travel and transportation sectors.
Sharif earned both his B.B.A. and M.S. from the University of Notre Dame.