Bill Smith, CISSP, GSNA, CEH, GPEN, GCFA, GCFE, GNFA

William (Bill) Smith Jr has been an ISSA member since 2004.   He was elected as Treasurer of the Central Maryland chapter in 2007 and has served as President since 2008.  During his tenure as President, the chapter successfully hosted the international conference in Baltimore, rebranded itself as the Central Maryland chapter in 2016 and was recognized as midsize chapter of the year in 2017.  Bill also led efforts to establish student chapters and a scholarship fund for cybersecurity students.   Bill has served as co-chair of the Chapter Leaders Committee for the past 2.5 years where he has been actively engaged with other chapter leaders.   In 2020, Bill was recognized as an ISSA Distinguished Fellow.

Bill graduated from Drexel University with a BS in Information Systems and Technology and a MS in Information Assurance from Norwich University.   He works as an Insider Threat Analyst at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory where he’s been for almost 25 years.

Outside of ISSA, Bill serves on the advisory boards at a local community college and a cybersecurity networking academy that is part of a county high school program.  In both roles, he has provided input to the curriculum, participated in career fairs, and mentored students within the respective cybersecurity programs.