Joseph Ruffini brings more than 25 years of experience from a broad array of fields including infrastructure security, counter-terrorist operations, risk management, and more to the private and civil sectors. Formerly an army lieutenant colonel charged with defending the United States and Canada against cyber intrusions, international terrorist plots, and nuclear, biological, and chemical attacks, Ruffini is currently an executive strategic information operations consultant supporting US Strategic Command, the Interagency, and the National Security Council, and US Central Command in Qatar and Iraq. Ruffini is a featured government, corporate, and personal security theorist, keynote speaker, and subject matter expert. His role in infrastructure security, counter-terrorist operations, operations security, information warfare and operations, command and operations, logistics management, training and education, and risk management combine to form a motivating “how-to” management presentation. Ruffini authored When Terror Comes to Main Street, an informative, straightforward, hard-hitting book for everyday people that boils down Ruffini’s lifetime of knowledge and operational experience into one all-inclusive read.
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Cyber Terrorism: Awareness for Corporate America Under Attack
In this presentation, Joseph Ruffini discusses the cyber threats posed by international terrorists, which, combined with traditional kinetic events, can greatly magnify the devastating physical and psychological effects that terrorists seek to achieve against Americans.
Ya Don’t Know What Ya Don’t Know: Living and Working in an Age of Information and Terror
This session covers the basics of personal, family, and business security vulnerabilities and safeguards related to current and emerging technologies, and the bad guys who can use technology to their advantages. Business speaker Joseph Ruffini’s informative, hard hitting, yet relaxed and humorous presentation talks about the vulnerabilities associated with everyday computers, e-mail, cell phones, faxes, fiber optic surveillance technologies and devices, and common social practices.
Identity Theft 101: What Every American Needs to Know!
Professional speaker Joseph Ruffini covers the gamut on how identities are compromised, how one can work to prevent identity theft, and what actions should be taken when one discovers that his or her identity has been compromised.







