John is an IT Security Engineer for Verizon Wireless and is a member of OWASP, ISC2, and ISSA. In his career, John has architected solutions that allowed companies to be PCI-DSS compliant, protected 100 million customers sensitive information and over 6 billion sensitive data elements, and created one of the first complete Enterprise Mobile Application Security policy for a major telecom company. He has also served by developing high-performance aircraft test systems for the US Department of Defense aircrafts such as B-1, B-2, and YF-22.

• Compliance & Governance
• Application Security
• Mobile Device Security
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
• Data Protection (Encryption, Tokenization)

• Former Enterprise Architect for Alltel Wireless, a wireless telecommunications provider
• Former Senior Technical Lead for Computer Sciences Corporation, a multinational corporation that provided IT and professional services
• Former Team Leader & System Analyst for ITT Inc., an American worldwide manufacturing company

• MS, Computer Science –West Coast University
• BS, Computer Science –California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
• CISSP –(ISC)2
• C|EH –EC-Council
• CRISC –ISACA

John holds an FCC amateur license and loves to build objects with his 3D printer.

John Korpal joined IANS in 2019. As a member of our Faculty, he provides clients with deep domain-level expertise in the following areas: compliance & governance, AppSec, mobile device security and data protection.