Mark S Merkow Author

Mark S. Merkow, CISSP, CISM, CSSLP, works at HealthEquity, Inc., in Tempe, Arizona, helping to lead application and IT security architecture and engineering efforts in the office of the CISO. In addition to his day job, Mark is a faculty member at the University of Denver, where he works on developing and instructing online courses in topics across the Information Security spectrum, with a focus on secure software development. He also works as an advisor to the University of Denver’s Information and Computing Technology Curriculum Team for new course development and changes to the curriculum. Mark has over 40 years of experience in IT in a variety of roles, including application development, systems analysis and design, security engineering, and security management. Mark holds a Master of Science in Decision and Information Systems from Arizona State University (ASU), a Master of Education in Distance Education from ASU, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from ASU.