Steve Krantz

With his characteristic "nerd's-eye view", Steve has just updated "CyberGuardian: A SecureTheVillage Guide for Residents" and "Cyber Security for Seniors" for 2023, improving his advice for self-protection in cyberspace, both books share a common approach and contents.  These books provide the necessary education to create and maintain the skills of CyberGuardians, leading to secure villages everywhere.

His previous books include even more boring tomes, such as "Real World Client/Server" and "Building Intranets with Lotus Notes and Domino" over 25 years ago. Steve recalls his first book signing in an Orlando Florida's Barnes & Noble: Steve enters the store. A free-standing sign has his enlarged photo and indicates "this way to the signing". A semi-circle of chairs and a table with a stack of "Real World Client/Server" appears in the back. His nephew, a local student, arrives with his Computer Science professor. Then a woman who is clearly lost. Steve, with nerd's-eye wisdom, opines: "Stephen King has book signings; Steven Krantz does not." Mumble.

Dr. Steve Krantz retired from a 39 year career at IBM® in 2007 as a Distinguished Engineer. For the last 8 years of his IBM career, he was Chief Architect and Strategy Leader of IBM’s worldwide, internal IT infrastructure, responsible for the successful computing support of over 400,000 professionals, technicians and administrators.

Steve is the Director of Operations and a member of the Board of SecureTheVillage, an organization dedicated to improving the cybersecurity of individuals, businesses and organizations worldwide (for more see www.securethevillage.org ).

Steve is the Vice President of PFLAG Los Angeles and a member of the Board of the LA LGBT Child Abuse Prevention Council, local organizations dedicated to the civil rights of LGBTQ persons. He served as Director of PFLAG’s Southern Pacific Region and as a member of PFLAG’s National Board from 2007 through 2013.

He was a long distance runner for over 30 years, having completed the New York Marathon twice and the LA Marathon 3 times. For the past ten years, he has attempted a second sports career as a tennis player.

With his late wife Joan, Steve is the parent of two adult sons, Jeff and Paul. With his wife Annick, he is step-dad to her two adult children, Amanda and Eric. They live happily in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.