Chaordic Mind

Mr. Dahn is a globally recognized information security professional and PCI expert. He was a founding member of the Society of Payment Security Professionals and Secure Payments Magazine. 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 trained over a thousand PCI qualified security assessors (QSA) globally. In addition to performing the first PABP assessment, he also delivered training on PCI DSS to merchants, acquirers, and payment application vendors globally. 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, and the Treasury Institute for Higher Education.

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.