Mr. Leo has trained over 15,000 CISSP candidates since 1998, and nearly 5000 in HIPAA privacy and security compliance since 2004, including law enforcement and attorneys.   Mr. Leo has provided Expert Witness services in several cases concerning compliance issues with regard to the impact of HIPAA on the subject matter and privacy violations.

Over the course Mr. Leo’s career since 1980, he worked in Security and Privacy as a contractor at Johnson Space Center from 1980 to 2002, in his final years in the role of Program Manager, Chief Security Architect and Chief Security Officer for Mission Operations for the Shuttle and Space Station programs.  From 2002 to 2006 he worked for the University of Texas-Galveston and Chief Information Security Officer and Director of IT for the Correctional Managed Care Division, establishing a complete security, privacy and compliance program for the organization.  Then he began a new chapter as a security and privacy consultant entirely devoted to Healthcare clients.

He is a Charter member of the EC-Council Certified Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI) Advisory Board, a global panel of experts working to establish professional standards and practices in data forensics and serves on scientific working groups at NIST in both Cloud Security and Forensics.  He serves on The American Board of Forensic Engineering and Technology (ABFET) for The American College of Forensic Examiners Institute (ACFEI) and holds several certifications from ISC2 and ISACA.  Mr. Leo has been accorded Fellow status for the American Board for Certification in Homeland Security (ABCHS).