Michael Morgenstern

Michael is a Partner at DayBlink Consulting and co-leads the Cybersecurity and Automation practices.  He is also a Research Fellow at the Cloud Security Alliance.  He has been assisting Fortune 500 technology organizations with strategic growth and operational/technology efficiency improvement for the past 20 years. He began his professional career as a cybersecurity entrepreneur – building Global InterSec to advise the U.S. intelligence community.  

He has been on the Board of Directors of 5 start ups, and is currently serving on the Blackwire Labs Advisory Board.  He contributes to OWASP, MIT CAMS and several Cloud Security Alliance Working Groups (Top Threats, AI, and Identity) where he has been.  He has spoken at Hushcon, Defcon, Blackhat, the US Cybergames and at the original Cyber Adversary Characterization conference. Recently he launched the Cyber Circuit podcast focusing on the intersections of cyber and AI.

Michael has briefed Congressmen, congressional staff and a variety of subcommittees and advised the Kurdish Regional Government, and the Republics of Benin and Montenegro.  He formerly advised the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes taskforce and was a member of FBI Infragard NJ.

Michael has been a guest lecturer on cybersecurity at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and Boston University.  He has a MBA in economics and finance from Columbia University and a BA in international relations and linguistics from Johns Hopkins University.   He holds CISSP, CCSK and Amazon certifications.

Michael has been published by the Cloud Security Alliance, DarkReading, Hackernoon, Security Focus, Connected Planet, RCR Wireless, Forbes Global, Cato Institute and the Wall Street Journal and interviewed for a dozen news articles.