Carl S. Young has held senior security-related positions in the US government, the financial sector, consulting, and academia. He is the author of four previous reference books on science applied to security risk management as well as numerous technical papers. He has been an adjunct professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and is the co-founder of Consilience 360, a security risk consulting firm located in New York City. Mr. Young earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics and physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).