Michael Owens Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

@USCYBERPOLICYNonpartisan organization with primary mission to review, analyze and communicate worldwide cyber policy and legislation to safeguard U.S. assets and interests. We are a non-governmental organization (NGO) comprised of experts and analysts from government, academic and commercial entities that focus on safeguarding of U.S. assets and interests through the innovation, investment and collaboration of cyber information, research and best practices. We explore and advise on how cyber policy directly impacts our national security and its direct influence US and global foreign policy. Cyber policy and legislation will continue impact our businesses, our schools, our infrastructure, and our lives . We bring together public, private, military and government experts to advise, create and promote cyber standards, policies and legislation that safeguard U.S. assets and interests.

Washington, Dc, Us

Member of the cyber expert group. Responsible for preparing bipartisan briefings on cybersecurity, national security, military/veterans affairs, and geopolitical efforts with political candidates, chapter members and interested groups.Currently serve as part of the leadership team for the Atlanta Chapter.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Clackamas, Oregon, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Tapped to build a new enterprise-wide information security program supporting the Equifax Legal organization with direct influence of General Counsel, Legal Operations, and Customer and Vendor Security Contracting.• Directs a strategic cyber risk program that adapts to a rapidly changing threat landscape, changes in business strategies, risks, and vulnerabilities.• Leads through engagement of IT, Risk, Cyber Intelligence, Data Privacy, Third Party, Incident Response and Issues Management teams.• Champion cyber security initiatives within the US Legal organization, while serving as a trusted advisor to General Counsel and Global Sourcing.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Led security for Equifax's largest business unit ($1B+ Annual revenue) as the Business Information Security Officer, a senior level role with the Global Security organization with the responsibility of leading a high-performing team of information security directors and analysts and providing ownership, advice, and consulting to Business, IT and Operations executives regarding key initiatives that could be impacted by compliance, risk, and cybersecurity issues.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Assumed the role of CISO (with a dotted line to the President of Equifax) for the largest business unit within Equifax, responsible for implementing the multi-million dollar strategy and execution of Equifax's Global Information Security Program. Led engagements with key Fortune 100 clients, while driving adoption and maturation of enhanced Information Security and Risk Management efforts.

London, Gb

Assurance Services Consulting Engagement - Recruited to lead an international effort to build the Cybersecurity & Cyber investigations program for EY Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services.The engagement was a short-term consulting assignment tasked with creating a cybersecurity service delivery practice by defining services for client-facing teams that could be unified around standards, methodologies, tools, and a governance model that allow us to keep our clients safe from external and internal threats, perform cyber forensic investigations and analysis to determine breach details and to ensure that we stay one step ahead of the bad guys.My team focused on building services to support global cybercrime investigation teams comprised of IT forensic and security professionals that worked closely with experienced corporate investigators. We were often asked to investigate and respond to network breach incidents.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Provider of digital cable television, telecommunications and Home Automation services. Third largest provider in the United States, serving more than 6.2 million customers, including 2.9 million digital cable subscribers, 3.5 million Internet subscribers, and almost 3.2 million digital telephone subscribers. • Working at the direction of the Chief Technology Officer, led a high-profile GRC (Governance Risk & Compliance) consulting engagement within the Strategic Architecture organization with enterprise-wide scope and scale. Responsible for multi-million investment strategy across Infrastructure, application, and services.• Tapped to perform a critical evaluation of top revenue-generating, customer-facing services, assess capability gaps and define target state for optimum performance. Partner with technology and business leadership to identify, develop and communicate the roadmap for future strategic investment. • Provided weekly status and advice to CTO and Executive team across all technical domains, responsible for all aspects of product supporting infrastructure technology including OS, infrastructure, software, systems, and services monitoring, systems management, end-to-end security, storage, data center, network, and capacity management.• Engage with internal and external partners to identify emerging trends and risks in infrastructure technology, cloud solutions, security best practices to help align business needs with IT objectives.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Working directly with governments and universities throughout the East Coast, identifying ways to increase govenment effeciency and and building more secure and resilient technology platforms as a Program Manager within the US Public Sector division of Cisco Systems. Focused on managing large/complex government programs within Georgia and New York. Management of multi-million dollar accounts with P&L responsibility across the portfolio of major University deployments in cybersecurity, voice, data networking, storage and telepresence throughout the Southeastern US.Led the Advanced Services Incident Response team to address critical cybersecurity and system failure situations at all levels of higher-ed, municipal and state government.

Geneva, Geneva, Ch

Member of the data center global leadership team, responsible for the tactical design, service delivery, and management of network and security services for data centers located in the US, UK, Canada, and Singapore. SITA has deployed IP VPN networks globally for over 660 customers, connecting 13,500 air transport sites around the world. SITA manages more than 17,000 IP connections on behalf of nearly 700 customers.

Geneva, Geneva, Ch

Consultant with Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques, an international IT Solutions company based in Geneva, Switzerland. Reporting into Senior Management within the Advance Technology Office located in Atlanta, Ga. Provide enterprise-wide architectural direction for the company's products and services including Global enterprise data center; work with the product management and support teams to architect systems and technology to meet functional and service requirements. •Design complex IT infrastructures and implement processes, tools and documentation standards with three enterprise datacenters (North America – Atlanta, GA / EU – London, England / Asia – Republic of Singapore) •Oversee technical communications with numerous partner organizations, external suppliers and vendors.

Michael transformed the company from a small, specialized integrator to a leading full-service IT Security consulting firm with clients throughout the Southeast focusing on CIO and CISO services, m along with service delivery. By building strategic and technical partnerships with Cisco, Microsoft, and HP, Michael is credited with driving CheyCom's growth at an average of 120% each year from 2004-2007.Michael was responsible for defining and aligning the overall strategy and vision of CheyCom Solutions' integrated network and systems architecture with the firm’s forward-looking business strategy. He collaborated with domestic and international clients and vendors. He provided cybersecurity and IT leadership, acted as a subject matter expert, vendor negotiation specialists, and consultant to construct a highly responsive, flexible, scalable, and secure architecture and systems development life-cycle to support new business growth, ventures, and opportunities.

Boston, Ma, Us

* Advisor Technology Services, LLC.*Reported to the Chief Information Officer of the Desktop Solutions Division and Director of Business Service Group. Primary responsibility was to utilize my skills in project management, building cross-functional teams, manage network architecture and infrastructure design, IT analysis and to successfully deliver turnkey e-business web-based application solutions to fortune 500 companies.

Washington, Dc, Us

Emerging Leaders

Certificate Of Leader Development, National Security And Strategy

International Security & Cyberwarfare

Doctorate, International Business

Master Of Science / Emba, Management Of Technology

Certificate, Cybersecurity: Managing Risk In The Information Age

B.S., Information Technology And Electronic Technology