Arthur Cooper

Coop has over 42 years of experience in Information Technology with the last sixteen years focusing on payment systems and architectures, eCommerce, payment application assessments, forensic investigations, compliance security assessments, development of secure network architectures, risk management programs, security governance initiatives, and regulatory compliance. Mr. Cooper was a member of the U.S. Air Force for most of his young adult life starting in 1978 and had direct experience with the original ARPANET and ARPANET 1822 Protocols. He was directly involved with the original DoD X.25 networks, the Defense Data Network (DDN), and the Automatic Digital Information Network (AUTODIN). He was directly involved with the original BBN Packet Switch Node (PSN) systems and has been involved with every major information technology “leap” or development since that time.