Shon Harris (March 27, 1968 – October 8, 2014) was an author of books and articles on topics related to

information security Information security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthorize ...

, including study guides for

Certified Information Systems Security Professional CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) is an independent information security certification granted by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium, also known as (ISC)². As of January, 2022 there ...

(CISSP) security certification examination. At the time of her death, over 1,000,000 copies of her books had been sold. Harris was also an engineer in the

United States Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal ...

Information Warfare Information warfare (IW) (as different from cyber warfare that attacks computers, software, and command control systems) is a concept involving the battlespace use and management of information and communication technology (ICT) in pursuit of a ...

Unit, an information security consultant, and the founder of information security training company LogicalSecurity. Harris posthumously won the

Information Systems Security Association Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) is a not-for-profit, international professional organization of information security professionals and practitioners. It was founded in 1984, after work on its establishment started in 1982. ISSA pro ...

's Hall of Fame award in 2015. Updated editions of her CISSP books were published posthumously by McGraw-Hill in 2015 and 2016. In 2015 Logical Security was acquired by former associates of Harris, and rebranded as Human Element. The company continues to offer training for CISSP based on the training curriculum designed by Harris. The

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

offers the "Shon Harris Memorial Endowed Scholarship in Computer Science" to students in need.

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Shon Harris's articles on TechTarget

Human Element Security
the company which acquired LogicalSecurity.com after Harris's death. {{DEFAULTSORT:Harris, Shon 1968 births 2014 deaths American women writers Place of death missing Place of birth missing Writers about computer security 21st-century American women