Gary Kessler Associates
Ormond Beach, Florida, United States of America

Gary C. Kessler, CISSP, is president of Gary Kessler Associates, a training, research, and consulting company specializing in maritime cybersecurity. Kessler holds a B.A. degree in Mathematics, an M.S. in Computer Science, and a Ph.D. in Computing Technology in Education, and has been in the information security field since the late 1970s. Co-author of the book Maritime Cybersecurity, 2nd ed., and author of dozens of papers on technology-related topics, he is a retired professor of cybersecurity with a research interest in the Automatic Identification System (AIS). An international lecturer, Kessler is a guest faculty member at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, on the advisory board of Cydome, instructor and mentor at the CyberBoat Challenge, a co-founder of the Maritime Hacking Village, and a fellow in the USCG Auxiliary Cybersecurity Directorate. Kessler is also a scuba instructor and holds a 50 GT Merchant Mariner Credential.