Michael Johnson has more than twenty-five years experience in the security profession with his most recent work as an Information Security Practice Leader within the professional services organization of a large information technology services company. In this role he had senior management responsibility for a professional services organization providing a broad range of IT security policy, program and technical assessment, implementation, and response consulting services employing twenty-three IT security practitioners.

 

During a nineteen year career with First Security Services Corporation - a leading provider of Organizational Security Services, Mr. Johnson gained increasing responsibility for marketing, sales, management and delivery of a broad range of outsourced security services including information / computer security consulting, physical security consulting, training, investigations, technical services and uniformed security officer services. He spent five years building a large security operation in the metropolitan New York City area serving the security needs of the region’s leading pharmaceutical, commercial real estate, financial services, accounting and law firms. Under his direction this organization grew to encompass one thousand two hundred employees and sales of nearly forty million dollars.

 

As a senior corporate executive with First Security Mr. Johnson was responsible for the development and launch of the Organizational Security concept; the cost efficient delivery of bundled risk management and security services designed to protect client companies against enterprise-wide threats to their five key assets-people, property, information, integrity, and reputation. As part of the Organizational Security initiative he was responsible for the start of First Security’s Information Security Solutions Group, the creation of private labeled cyber-insurance and risk management products, and the development of a Business Counter-Espionage consulting practice. Additionally, Mr. Johnson acted as a senior business advisor to several nationally recognized public safety executives in the creation and start of public safety agency re-engineering and management consulting practice.

 

Mr. Johnson has worked in senior sales and business development roles with two large security services providers and served as president of a New York City based start-up security services and consulting company. He has also worked as an independent security consultant providing a broad range of advisory services to several large Fortune 500 companies in the Mid-Atlantic region.

 

Mr. Johnson is a member of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2, the Computer Security Institute, the Information Systems Audit and Controls Association (ISACA),  and ASIS International. He has served on numerous local, regional, and national security trade industry association committees, currently serving as a volunteer member of ASIS International President’s Council on Enterprise Risk Management and the board of the HISP Institute.  He has consulted and acted as a senior advisor to several public safety agencies and the US Department of Justice.  Mr. Johnson has lectured at several public safety agencies’ training academies as well as colleges and universities. He has authored or co-authored information security white papers; with two articles currently pending publication in information assurance technical trade journals.  

 

Mr. Johnson is a former officer in the U. S. Army and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from Norwich University, a Masters of Business Administration from Northeastern University, and a Masters of Science in Information Assurance from Norwich University. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), certified Holistic Information Security Practitioner (HISP), Certified Protection Professional (CPP), and has completed ISO 27001 Information Security Management Systems Lead Auditor and Implementation certification training.

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