George (Buzz) Murphy, CISSP, SSCP, CASP, is a public speaker, corporate trainer, author, and cybersecurity evangelist who, over the past three decades, has touched the lives of thousands of adult learners around the world through hundreds of speaking and training events covering a variety of technical and cybersecurity topics. A former Dell technology training executive and U.S. Army IT networking security instructor, he has addressed audiences at national conferences, major corporations, and educational institutions, including Princeton University, and he has trained network and cybersecurity operators for the U.S. military branches, various U.S. government security agencies, and foreign military personnel.

As a military data center manager in Europe, he held a top-secret security clearance in both U.S. and NATO intelligence and through the years has earned 26 IT and cybersecurity certifications from such prestigious organizations as (ISC)², CompTIA, PMI, and Microsoft. He is an (ISC)² Authorized Instructor specializing in CISSP and Cloud Security certification training. He has authored, coauthored, and contributed to more than a dozen books on a wide range of topics, including network engineering, industrial technology, and IT security, and recently served as technical editor for the (ISC)² CCFP – Certified Cyber Forensics Professional Certification Guide by Chuck Easttom (McGraw Hill, 2014) as well as for the recent publication CASP: CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner Study Guide by Michael Greg (Sybex, 2014).