Ronald Mendell holds a B.S. degree in Liberal Studies (Humanities) from the University of the State of New York and an M.S. degree in Network Security from Capitol Technology University. He has done additional graduate study in criminal investigation and forensics at National University. Ronald is a CISSP-certified professional with six years of teaching experience in Information Security at Austin Community College. He has thirteen years of experience as a legal and private investigator and fifteen years as a Technical Client Analyst at CDK Global. Since 2016, he has taught Information Security at the School of IT at Western Governors University. 

His books include Probing into Cold Cases (on digital and physical investigations), The Quiet Threat (about industrial espionage), How To Do Financial Asset Investigations, and The Devious Counselor – A Dialogue on Information Security. His articles on security issues have appeared in Security Management and in the ISSA Journal.