Steven Fustero

Steven J. Fustero is the founder of the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals which publishes the Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International.

In the 1980s Fustero was the circulations director for Nation's Business, the inhouse magazine of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, but left in October 1986 to set up his own business. The New Jersey based Star-Ledger reports that "After several counterterrorism newsletters flopped in the mid-1980s, Fustero's wife and mother urged him to find cheerier work. But he persisted..."

In October 1996 Fustero registered specialoperations.com, a website originally run by a man called Tom Hunter, providing information for military enthusiasts interested in US Special Forces operations.

In April 1997 he set up several websites associated with IACSP - primarily iacsp.com, but also Securitynet.net, which sells IACSP merchandise and security equipment such as anti-bugging technology and CCTV systems, and antiterrorism.org which also displays a selection of security equipment as well as a ‘book store’. That year Fustero also established IACSP’s Washington based not-for-profit foundation, the Counterterrorism & Security Education and Research Foundation (CTSERF).

In May 2008 Fustero registered the domain ‘theoriginalcounterterrorismmagazine.com’.