Ali Pabrai
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Irvine, California
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, California
California
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, and a subject matter expert on information security
Information security
Information security means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction....
and regulatory compliance standards. He is chairman and chief executive officer of ecfirst, an Inc. 500 business headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa. ecfirst is exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association (AHA) for its HIPAA training and certification programs. http://www.pabrai.com
Previously, Mr. Pabrai founded Net Guru Technologies (NGT) in 1994. NGT was acquired by a NASDAQ
NASDAQ
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-based firm in 1997. He launched his career in 1983 with Schumberger, a leading oilfield services provider, in Dubai
Dubai
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as an Associate Accountant. In 1987 he started his career in the United States at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab
Fermilab
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a US Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics...
), U.S. Department of Energy.
Pabrai established the world’s first certification program that comprehensively addresses global compliance standards and regulations in the area of information security - the Certified Security Compliance Specialist (CSCS). Mr. Pabrai successfully developed leading certification credentials in the world, including CIW (over 100,000 certificates issued), Security Certified Program (SCP)http://securitycertified.net , and the HIPAA Academy’s CHP and CHSS.
Pabrai is the author of The Art of Information Security http://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=uday+pabrai, a leading book covering cyber security strategy and best practices. He is also the author of several best selling industry books, including Internet & TCP/IP Network Security and Getting Started with HIPAA. He has published hundreds of articles on regulatory compliance and information security.
Mr. Pabrai was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year by the Illinois Indian Chamber of Commerce in 1997 and nominated for Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young
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’s Entrepreneur of the Year award, 1997.
He is also a member of the U.S. FBI InfraGard
InfraGard
InfraGard is a private non-profit organization serving as a public-private partnership between U.S. businesses and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The organization describes itself as an information sharing and analysis effort serving the interests and combining the knowledge base of a wide...
. Mr. Pabrai has a Bachelor of Science degree from Clemson University
Clemson University
Clemson University is an American public, coeducational, land-grant, sea-grant, research university located in Clemson, South Carolina, United States....
in Computer Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly called Illinois Tech or IIT, is a private Ph.D.-granting university located in Chicago, Illinois, with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, communications, industrial technology, information technology, design, and law...
(IIT).