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Thomas Johnson "TJ"

National Leader, Cybersecurity

CISA, CISM, CISA, CDPSE, CRISC, CISSP, COBIT5, C|CISO, CCSK, ITILv3

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Executive Summary

“TJ” has more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity and technology and has extensive compliance related expertise working with various frameworks and standards such as NIST CSF, HIPAA, PCI, FFIEC, GLBA, ISO27001, CIS, SOC, SEC, ITAR, SP800-171, FedRAMP, and CMMC. During his career, TJ has held various leadership positions in private enterprise and has worked with clients in many areas of cybersecurity leadership that include vendor management, disaster recovery, business continuity, cloud security, data protection, budgeting, legal, insurance and risk management.

These clients span many industries and include the following:
  • Healthcare (Medical centers)
  • Banking and Finance (Commercial banks, Hedge funds, Brokerage firms)
  • Manufacturing (DoD and private sector)
  • Technology (Service providers, software development, cloud, datacenter)
  • Non-Profit

TJ is an Adjunct Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he teaches in the Cybersecurity Masters Program. He also maintains various advisory positions with ISACA where his 10-year tenure with the organization was instrumental in developing the CISA, CISM and CRISC examinations and question pools.

  • Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)
  • International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC)² 
  • FBI Infragard


  • Illinois Institute of Technology – Master of Information Technology Management
  • Utah Valley University – Bachelor of Science - Aeronautical Sciences