Michael Miora

Michael Miora has designed and assessed secure, survivable, and highly robust systems for industry and government for 35 years. He has worked extensively in the financial, health care, and communications industries and developed business continuity and disaster recovery plans for companies and government agencies in the US and internationally.

He originated the Generalized Cost Consequence (GCC) model for performing business impact analysis, now an industry standard methodology. He has consulted to the National Computer Security Center and is certified as a CISSP-ISSMP professional. He has served as the director of the security consulting organization for the National Computer Security Association (now a part of Verizon).

A frequent speaker and prolific author, he is a contributor to Computer Security Handbook, 5th Edition, and the Handbook of Information Security. His undergraduate and master’s degrees, both in mathematics, were earned at UCLA and UC Berkeley.