Michael Sukkarieh

I have more than 14 years of professional providing services for a wide range of companies in manufacturing, health care, insurance & finance, telecommunication, pharmaceutical, as well as government agencies & other international companies. I have a mix of technical background, business development & communication skills with the ability to translate & communicate complex security & privacy compliance issues into business terms. I am fluent in more than three languages & developed expertise in the following areas:

•    Hands on Information Security (IS) & Privacy Assessment, Management, Audit, Compliance & Threat Risk Management

•    Information Security & Privacy Risk Management

•    Process Engineering & Automation

•    Education & Training as well as academic Teaching as an Adjunct Professor

•   Program Management & Business Development

•   Product Manager & Business Analysis

• Software & Firmware Development

•    Currently, leading a team to support design of corporate wide Information Security Risk Assessment process & developing related IS Risk models.

•     Currently leading a workgroup to develop IS and Operational IT Risk & Control Libraries. 

•     Currently teaching as an Adjunct Professor in Information Systems Management at NJIT.

•    Managed all aspect of service delivery & vendor relationship of Attack & Penetration Service for a major financial institution.

•     Designed and managed a state of the art a Compliance Issues Management System & processes for audit, pen testing, site visits for a major financial institution.

•     Authored numerous Corporate Information Privacy & Information Security policies to meet security & privacy regulations directives such as HIPAA. EU & CA 1386.

•    Managed several large information security posture reviews & audits that included Information Security Assessments, Threat & Risk Analysis & Ethical Hacking.

•     Delivered & participated in Information Security Architecture Design & Strategies and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) & Remote Access proof of concepts.

•     Designed & Implemented Cost of Business & Risk Analysis (COBRA) Methodology. This is a unique expert system for evaluating security policies against BS7799 & other standards.

•     Delivered Information Security Training for multinational clients for mixed technical & business audiences. Topics included Network-based security, host-based security, PKI & Kerberos among others.

• Provided Account Management & Business Development activities including account strategy plans, managing client relationship as well as acting as assistant director of the US Eastern Region for a consulting company.

• Provided technical & Project Management direction on engagements, for large projects including planning, execution & quality assurance. 

• Worked as a Program Manager on engaging clients with design & implementation of secure, distributed information management solutions, including incident response strategies, architectures & business recovery planning.

•    Spent six years in Software Development. My responsibilities included Leading Teams for designing, implementing & testing software for various firmware & software initiatives.

• Was granted secret clearance to work on US military projects.

• Published author in Information Security Bulletin. Publication copies will be provided upon request.

• Guest speaker at the ISACA IT Audit conference/NYC chapter in 2000.

• Guest speaker on PKI implementation for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Central Bank in April 2000.

• Guest speaker at the NJ Computer Club in December 2002

• Frequent guest lecturer at the Raritan Valley Community College in Raritan NJ in 2002, 2004 & 2005.

•    Receiver of a full assistantship for the graduate Systems Science Program in the THOMAS WATSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING at Binghamton University in NY.

•    Receiver of an MBA in finance with distinction from Long Island University NY.

•    Highly praised in a feature article for innovative training techniques.

•    Quoted in a NJ12 news channel regarding opinion on ID theft.