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The concept behind The Guerilla CISO is a bit of BOFH, a bit of ranting, and a bit of “do it this way because it works”. In other words, exactly what I would give somebody in person, and pretty typical blog fare.

As for me, I tell people that I’m a “Russian Linguist, linux administrator, flyfisher, and security geek at-large”.

My official press bio:

Michael Smith is a Manager in the Audit and Enterprise Risk Services organization of Deloitte & Touche LLP, where he leads engagements to provide security services to both commercial enterprises and government agencies.

Prior to Joining Deloitte, Michael served as the Chief Information Security Officer with the Unisys Federal Service Delivery Center based in Reston, Virginia.  His scope of responsibility included both providing governance and managing risk for several data centers, Security Operations Center, Network Operations Center, and Server Management Team.

Michael has performed numerous tasks throughout the Certification and Accreditation (C&A) process for clients in the Federal Civilian and Department of Defense environments.  He has designed and performed security testing and evaluation engagements against national level systems in both the Federal Civilian and Department of Defense environments.

Michael graduated from the prestigious Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA with a Department of Defense advanced linguistic certification in Russian and spent several years on active duty in the US army as a translator and specialist in information security.

In 2004, Michael was activated as a member of the Virginia National Guard and deployed to Afghanistan, where he conducted numerous combat patrols as an infantry squad leader.

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