James GoepelJim is the General Counsel and Director of Education at Continuous Compliance LLC, the provider of the FutureFeed compliance acceleration platform. Jim brings a broad range of legal, technical, and business expertise to the Continuous Compliance team He is a Founding Director and former Board Treasurer of the CMMC Accreditation Body (now called the CyberAB), and earned his CMMC Provisional Instructor ("PI"), Certified CMMC Professional ("CCP"), and Certified CMMC Assessor ("CCA") certifications from the CyberAB.

Jim also authored and taught the first official CMMC course, the CyberAB's initial Registered Practitioner course. Jim earned a BSECE from Drexel University and JD and LLM degrees from George Mason University. He spent most of his professional career working in the cybersecurity field. Jim has worked for and counseled a variety of organizations, from various portions of the United States government, including the U.S. House of Representatives and United States Coastguard; to government contractors, including Unisys Corporation and The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; to start-up technology and consulting companies.  Jim regularly speaks at domestic and international cybersecurity conferences and has been called upon as an expert witness on cybersecurity, IT, and government contracts issues.

He is the author of CUI Fundamentals and CUI Informed, books about the government's Controlled Unclassified Information ("CUI") program. Jim is also the co-author of a CCP curriculum taught nationally by several training providers. Jim's research into the application of Enterprise Risk Management techniques to the field of cyber and privacy governance has been published by the Supreme Court of Singapore in their National Law Journal and in two different books published by LexisNexis. Jim is also a co-founder of the CMMC Information Institute, a non-profit organization helping small businesses to better understand and meet their cybersecurity and data privacy obligations. Read More Read Less