Mike holds the CISSP, PCIP, IAM, IEM and is HIPAA certified.  He is a 6 year veteran of USMC and resides in eastern North Carolina. Mike is the principal at BlueTeamAssess LLC and is a Senior CyberSecurity Architect and Mentor. He believes information security has a tactical and strategic value proposition for any organization and must not be viewed as a discretionary expense. Mike’s areas of expertise are in information technology, specifically in networking, information security, risk and vulnerability management. Mike earned his BA from ECU, his MBA from the University of Maryland and a graduate certificate in Information Security and Privacy from UNC at Charlotte. Mike is a Senior member of the ISSA and a Gold member of ISACA. Mike installed the first firewall at Wachovia and served as the primary security engineer and architect for Wachovia's first Internet banking and brokerage products.  He has spoken before several local organizations on the subject of risk and vulnerability management and topics of current concern in information security.  He has led many risk assessment efforts and has developed security standards for technical devices and operating environments in major organizations including government, retail and finance.  His passion is helping SMBs