top of page
PRINCIPAL // FILE: DENYER, CHARLES
Charles Denyer
North America's leading authority on the FBI CJIS Security Policy.
Two decades helping the agencies and companies that hold the nation's criminal justice information get compliant — and stay that way.
20+ YEARS of experience
20 CJIS POLICY AREAS
AUSTIN, TX — NATIONWIDE
FOUNDER & CEO, cjis academy
Learn More
01 — THE STANDARD
When an agency or business has to answer for how it protects criminal justice information, Charles Denyer is the name it calls.
The FBI CJIS Security Policy is one of the most consequential — and most misunderstood — security mandates in American law enforcement. Every agency, contractor, and cloud provider that touches criminal justice information (CJI) lives under it, and a single gap can put an entire justice network at risk.
Charles Denyer has spent his career at the center of that world. He has guided some of the largest and most scrutinized organizations in the country — from major police departments and county sheriff's offices to state agencies and the private-sector vendors that serve them — through CJIS assessment, remediation, and audit. Where others read the policy, Charles operationalizes it: translating hundreds of pages of federal requirements into controls that hold up under a real audit and work in a real operations environment.
It is that combination — command of the letter of the policy and command of the field it's enforced in — that has made him the advisor practitioners turn to when the stakes are highest.
02 — COMMAND OF THE POLICY
Fluent in Every Policy Area — Not Just the Ones That are Easy.
CJIS Security Policy v6.0 aligns to NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5, organizing its requirements into twenty policy areas. Charles advises across every one.
AREA 01
Information Exchange Agreements
AREA 03
Awareness & Training (AT)
AREA 05
Auditing & Accountability (AU)
AREA 07
Contingency Planning (CP)
AREA 09
Incident Response (IR)
AREA 11
Media Protection (MP)
AREA 13
Planning (PL)
AREA 15
Risk Assessment (RA)
AREA 17
System & Communications Protection (SC)
AREA 19
Supply Chain Risk Management (SR)
AREA 02
Access Control (AC)
AREA 04
Auditing & Accountability (AU)
AREA 06
Configuration Management (CM)
AREA 08
Identification & Authentication (IA)
AREA 10
Maintenance (MA)
AREA 12
Physical & Environmental Protection (PE)
AREA 14
Personnel Security (PS)
AREA 16
System & Services Acquisition (SA)
AREA 18
System & Information Integrity (SI)
AREA 20
Mobile Devices
LEARN MORE 2
03 — TRACK RECORD
CJIS Compliance Where Failure isn't an Option.
Charles has led CJIS engagements across the full spectrum of the criminal justice information ecosystem — the agencies that generate CJI and the private-sector partners entrusted with it.
Major Municipal & Campus Police
Large metropolitan and university police departments navigating advanced authentication, audit readiness, and complex records environments.
State & Public-Safety Agencies
State-level criminal justice and public-safety organizations coordinating compliance across dozens of downstream agencies.
County Sheriff's Offices
Multi-division sheriff's offices and the justice networks around them, where CJIS obligations reach across jails, courts, and dispatch.
Private-Sector CJI Vendors
Cloud providers, software companies, and contractors that store, process, or transmit CJI and must prove it to the agencies they serve.
Frequently Asked Questions
04 — BEYOND CJIS
A Rare Depth Across the Frameworks that Govern Regulated Industries.
CJIS is Charles's specialty, but it sits inside a career spent across the toughest compliance regimes in government and industry. That breadth is why his CJIS guidance is grounded in how real security programs are actually built and audited — not in the policy read in isolation.
04 — BEYOND CJIS
Setting the Conversation, Not Just Following it.
Educator & Curriculum Architect: Founder of CJIS Academy and Compliance Security Academy, where Charles designs the masterclass programs and practitioner resources professionals use to master the policy.
Published Author: A published author whose work draws on decades of relationships across the national security and public-safety community.
Trusted Advisor: Through his consulting practice, Charles is the advisor agencies and boards call when a CJIS decision has to be right the first time.
bottom of page