Chaordic Mind

Mr. Dahn is a globally recognized information security professional and PCI expert. He founded the Society of Payment Security Professionals and Secure Payments Magazine, which created the Certified Payment-Card Industry Security Manager/Auditor (CPISM/A) certification. Mr. Dahn has performed hundreds of PCI security assessments for merchants, service providers, acquirers, and payment application vendors. He works with Visa and MasterCard on the continued development of the PCI DSS and PA-DSS standards. He has trained thousands of PCI qualified security assessors (QSA) merchants, acquirers, and payment application vendors globally. He created and performed the first PABP assessment, which resulted in the PA-DSS industry standard. Prior to this work he led the internal rollout of the Discover Information Security Compliance (DISC) program for Discover Network.

Mr. Dahn has given numerous speaking engagements for a variety of security and commercial associations such as the FDIC and NCUA, RSA, SOURCEBoston, Canadian Financial Institutions CERT, American Petroleum Institute, Treasury Institute for Higher Education, ShmooCon, and Security B-Sides.

Mr. Dahn holds the CISSP certification, membership in the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA), is on the Board of Directors for the National InfraGard Members Alliance, and has a Masters in Information Assurance and a BS in Computer Science.