Mr. David Shearer has more than 30 years of business experience including the chief operating officer for (ISC)², associate chief information officer for International Technology Services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the deputy chief information officer at the U.S. Department of the Interior, and the executive for architecture, engineering and technical services at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Shearer has been responsible for managing and providing services via international IT infrastructures, and he has implemented large-scale SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects. Mr. Shearer has led large geographically separated staffs that support global solutions. Mr. Shearer holds a B.S. from Park College, a M.S. from Syracuse University, management and technical certificates from the U.S. National Defense University, and he is a U.S. federal executive presidential rank award recipient. As (ISC)² Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Shearer is responsible for the overall direction and management of the organization.

Electrical engineers are building systems and grids; software engineers are building applications for the masses; and civil engineers are building airports and other structures. What do all of these engineering disciplines have in common? Security is a missing component throughout all of their product development lifecycles. With the pressure to rush products to market, security considerations are overlooked or brushed aside in favor of product functionality and condensed development timelines. The consequences rendered from this type of product development culture are evident in instances such as the mass recall after the Jeep hack, which resulted in extra cost, employee time and reputational damage. When we look at the entire product development lifecycle, we must start advocating for security until it becomes a key requirement on par with functionality.