Dr. Gerald L. Kovacich graduated from the University of Maryland with a bachelor’s degree in history and politics with emphasis in Asia, the University of Northern Colorado with a master’s degree in social science with emphasis in public administration, Golden Gate University with a master’s degree in telecommunications management, the DOD Language Institute (Chinese Mandarin), and August Vollmer University with a doctorate degree in criminology. He was also a Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Protection Professional, and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.1
Dr. Gerald L. Kovacich has more than 40 years of experience in industrial security, investigations, information systems security, and information warfare as a special agent in the U.S. government; a technologist and manager for numerous technology-based international corporations; and an information systems security officer, security, audit, and investigations manager, and consultant to U.S. and foreign government agencies and corporations. He has also developed and managed several internationally based information systems security programs for Fortune 500 corporations and managed several information systems security organizations, including providing service and support for their information warfare products and services.
Dr. Gerald L. Kovacich has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in criminal justice, technology crimes investigations, and security for Los Angeles City College, DeAnza College, Golden Gate University, and August Vollmer University. He has also lectured internationally and presented workshops on these topics for national and international conferences, as well as writing numerous published articles on high-tech crime investigations, information systems security, and information warfare, both nationally and internationally. He has written more than 100 security-related articles that have been published in various international magazines.
Dr. Gerald L. Kovacich currently spends his time on Whidbey Island, Washington. He continues to conduct research, write, consult, and lecture internationally on such topics as:
• Global and nation-state information systems security;
• Corporate information systems security;
• Corporate and government fraud;
• Corporate security;
• High-tech crime investigations;
• Information assurance;
• Proprietary information protection;
• Espionage–including “Netspionage,” economic, and industrial; and
• Information warfare–offensive and defensive.
He is also the founder of ShockwaveWriters, an informal association of trusted cyber security and global information warfare professionals, writers, researchers, and lecturers who concentrate on these topics. He can also be found on LinkedIn.
Dr. Gerald L. Kovacich has begun to expand his writings into the world of poetry and fiction. I guess this is what happens when one “matures” in age and longs for writing genres other than that of the security realm. All his writings can be found on the usual Web sites, for example, amazon.com.
Other Books Authored or Coauthored by Dr Gerald L. Kovacich
1. Information Systems Security Officer’s Guide: Establishing and Managing an Information Protection Program (Elsevier; 1998; ISBN: 0-7506-9896-9), Kovacich
2. Information Systems Security Officer’s Guide: Establishing and Managing an Information Protection Program (second edition; Elsevier; 2003; ISBN: 0-7506-7656-6), Kovacich
3. High-Technology Crime Investigator’s Handbook: Working in the Global Information Environment (Elsevier; 2000; ISBN: 13: 978-0-7506-7086-9; 10: 0-7506-7086-X), Kovacich/Boni
4. High-Technology Crime Investigator’s Handbook: Establishing and Managing a High-Technology Crime Prevention Program (Elsevier; 2006; ISBN: 13: 978-0-7506-7929-9; 10: 0-7506-7929-8), Kovacich/Jones
5. The Manager’s Handbook for Corporate Security: Establishing and Managing a Successful Assets Protection Program (Elsevier; 2003; ISBN: 0-7506-7487-3), Kovacich/Halibozek
6. The Manager’s Handbook for Corporate Security: Establishing and Managing a Successful Assets Protection Program (Instructor’s Manual) (Elsevier; 2005; ISBN: 13: 978-0-750-67038-1; 10: 0-750-67938-7), Kovacich/Halibozek
7. I-Way Robbery: Crime on the Internet (Elsevier; 1999; ISBN: 0-7506-7029-0), Kovacich/Boni
8. Netspionage: The Global Threat to Information (Elsevier; 2000; ISBN: 0-7506-7257-9), Kovacich/Boni
9. Information Assurance: Surviving in the Information Environment (Springer-Verlag; 2001; ISBN: 1-85233-326-X), Kovacich/Blyth
10. Information Assurance: Security in the Information Environment (second edition; Springer-Verlag; 2006; ISBN: 10: 1-84628-266-7; 13: 978-1-84628-266-9), Kovacich/Blyth
11. Global Information Warfare: How Businesses, Governments and Others Achieve Global Objectives and Attain a Competitive Advantage (Auerbach/CRC Press; 2002; ISBN: 0-8493-1114-4), Kovacich/Jones/Luzwick
12. Global Information Warfare: How Businesses, Governments and Others Achieve Global Objectives and Attain a Competitive Advantage (second edition; Auerbach/CRC Press; 2015; 9781498703253), Kovacich/Jones
13. The Corporate Security Professional’s Handbook on Terrorism (Elsevier; 2008; ISBN: 978-0-7506-8257-2), Kovacich/Halibozek
14. Mergers and Acquisitions Security: Corporate Restructuring and Security Management (Elsevier; 2005; ISBN: 0-7506-7805-4), Kovacich/Halibozek
15. Fighting Fraud: How to Establish and Manage an Anti-Fraud Program (Elsevier; 2008; ISBN: 978-0-12-370868-7), Kovacich
16. Poems of Life: Thoughts of Human Experiences (AuthorHouse; 2012; ISBN: 978-1-4772-9634-9; 978-1-4772-9633-2; 978-1-4772-9632-5), Kovacich
17. I-Way Robbery: Crime on the Internet (2000; Japanese Translation; http://www.horei.com; ISBN: 4-89346-698-4), Kovacich/Boni
18. High-Technology Crime Investigation (2009; Chinese Translation; http://www.sciencep.com), Kovacich/Jones
20. The Corporate Security Professional’s Handbook on Terrorism: Protect Your Employees and Other Assets against Acts of Terrorism (Elsevier; 2007; ISBN 978-0-7506-8257-2), Jones A, Kovacich G, Halibozek E.