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 | Founder & CEO, ContingenZ
Corporation
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| Co-Founder, Sr. Vice President
& Managing Director, ePrivacy Group
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| Founder and CEO, InfoSec
Labs (formerly Miora Systems Consulting, Inc.)
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| Founder, NCSA
Consulting
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| Vice President,
Rainbow Technologies
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| Pioneer in
Security and Privacy
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| Prolific author
of articles, books and speaker at international forums
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| Advisor, Avery
Dennison, American Express, AT&T, Liberty Mutual, Merck, Siemens,
Sprint, Edward Jones, City of Glendale, and Kern County
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Biography
Michael Miora has designed and assessed
secure, survivable, highly robust systems for Industry and Government over the
past 25 years. Miora, one of the original professionals granted the CISSP in the
90s and the ISSMP in 2004, was accepted as an FBCI in 2005. Miora founded and currently serves as President of
ContingenZ Corporation. As founder of InfoSec Labs (1997-1999), a recognized leader in security consulting and related services, Mr. Miora managed consulting services and programs for major companies and has performed Information Security,
Continuity and Privacy Assessments for companies across a variety of industry sectors. InfoSec Labs was acquired by Rainbow Technologies (RNBO) in 1999; Mr. Miora then served as Vice President for Rainbow, managing its security consulting services from 1999 to 2001.
Mr. Miora is also a co-founder of ePrivacy Group, the parent company to TurnTide,
the developer of the anti-spam firewall appliance of the same name, acquired in
2004 by Symantec. He also founded and served as the Director of the security
consulting organization for the National Computer Security Association (NCSA),
now part of Verizon, helping that organization achieve its status as a major force in the Information Security arena.
Mr. Miora has gained an international reputation for his consulting to major corporations worldwide as well as to the US National Computer Security Center, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the NSA, and for providing training and seminars in Computer Security & Privacy and in Disaster Recovery. Miora has built Incident Management programs for Global 2000 companies.
Mr. Miora was
educated at UCLA and UC Berkeley, earning Bachelors and Masters degrees in
Mathematics. Miora is an Adjunct Professor at Norwich University, a frequent
speaker and prolific author, and a member of the editorial boards of the Norwich
University Journal of Information Assurance (NUJIA) and the Business Continuity
Journal.
His two latest published work include contributions
to the Computer Security Handbook, 4th and 5th Editions by Wiley & Sons,
and contributions (Chapter 8) to Business Continuity, Disaster
Recovery, and Incident Management Planning, Published by The
Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation (January 2004) ISBN
0-89413-527-9.
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