About the webmaster
Richard S. Keirstead (CISSP, CISM, MBCI, ISO27001 LA, M.A., B.A., KCTJ) came to Japan from Montreal, Canada in 1988. He intended to stay only a year to study the Kyokushinkai style of Japanese karate and earn a black belt. But things changed in all those years.
In between then and now he has:
- Had several Japanese publications released
- Picked up a postgraduate degree in international business law.
- Become an information security professional and has been in senior management of several small companies
Is currently an executive at Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC, a Big 4 accounting, audit, and Advisory firm. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), a certified auditor for ISO/IEC 27001 and a certified Member of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI).- Is a Knight Commandeur of the Temple of Jerusalem (KCTJ), The Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem, Priory of St. James, Canada

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