Michael Berman

Current

• Chief Technology Officer at Catbird Networks

Past

• Contract CISO at Agile Software Corp.
• Principal at IS-DATA
• Contract CISO at Network Appliance

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Education

• Berkeley Extension and other institutions
• University of California, Santa Cruz

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Michael Berman’s Summary

SUMMARY: 20 YEARS OF INFORMATION SECURITY AND IT PROJECT EXPERIENCE
• Managed consulting team (77 engineers) which delivered broad range of network and security services to national and international clients: information security assessments, penetration testing, network security design and implementation, incident response and cyber-crime investigation

• Managed over 70 large scale projects for global organizations: secure UNIX system development; major release of UNIX client and server systems; application deployment and network management systems for 100K node networks; consulting lead for dozens of Global 1000 clients

• Principal consultant for information security providing project management and architecture design for the following companies: Cisco Systems, Union Bank of California, Unisys Corporation, Lotus Development Corporation, Knight-Ridder Information Services, Network Appliance, Schwab, Oracle, Reynolds and Reynolds, Ascend, SCO, Netcom, Bellcore and many others

• Developed information security policies, and ISO 17799 compliant guidelines and procedures for over 30 enterprise clients in the financial, high-technology, bio-medical and manufacturing industries

• Directed computer emergency incident response and computer forensic investigation: experience with hundreds of investigations and with criminal and civil prosecution; qualified as an expert witness

• Experience with the following technologies: Microsoft XP NT; UNIX, Linux, Solaris, HP/UX; TCP/IP, SMTP, HTTP, SSL; Guidance Encase, Coroner's Toolkit; MS Word, Excel, Outlook, FrontPage, Project, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio; C, C++, Visual Basic, awk, sed, bash, nmap, ssh, PGP; RBAC, PKI, CA, Encryption, MLS, CMW

Michael Berman’s Specialties:

• Expert in network security design, management, and implementation

• Certified in the National Security Agency IAM

• CISSP, ISC2 (#4097)

• Managed dozens of projects in complex and dynamic environments for Fortune 500 and Global clients

• Over 20 years of experience in computer and telecommunications technology, especially UNIX, Microsoft, TCP/IP and related systems

• Expert in many areas of computer forensics with superior skills in the recovery of deleted or fragmentary data