Information Security Matters: For Donn, With Respect and Arguments

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Author: Steven Ross, CISA, CDPSE, MBCI, MBCP
Date Published: 1 November 2026
Read Time: 9 minutes

Anyone who plies the information security trade owes a debt of gratitude to Donn Parker. When almost no one was paying attention to information security, Donn was researching and writing about it and creating awareness of the then-current and still ongoing threats to information resources. He entered prisons and interviewed people convicted of information system-related crimes, to report on how and why they did what they did...

 

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