Michael S. Oberlaender

Michael S. Oberlaender is the world-renown cybersecurity pioneer & expert that has served in multiple global CISO and CSO roles for global Fortune companies and who has authored the famous book "C(I)SO - And Now What - How to Successfully Build Security by Design" as well as the latest one "Global CISO - How to Succeed in InfoSec and CyberSecurity". Michael is sought after speaker, panelist, interviewee, moderator, radio show guest, and one of the best global C(I)SOs out there. He has compiled his battle-tested experiences, and his successful leadership know-how as well as his strategy approaches into these standard almanacs that have been quoted by numerous other security leaders. Michael is multilingual, and comes with a master of science (Physics) from the international ivy league ranking University of Heidelberg, Germany and is certified as CISM, CGEIT, CISSP, CRISC, CISA, ACSE, GSNA, CNSS, TOGAF Gold, and is a member of the organizations (ISC)2, ISACA, SANS, InfraGard, and several other industry associations. He sits on the board of the ISACA GHC and is board advisor for the companies TriagingX and SentinelOne and was prior advisory board member of Netscope.