Michael Aminzade

QSA, PCIP, CISSP, C|CISO, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, ISO LA27001, Vice President, Managed Compliance Services, VikingCloud

Michael Aminzade has over 26 years of experience within cyber, information security and compliance industries. Michael’s experience covers the full spectrum from internal information security where he has been the CISO for a large global service provider to running large global consulting teams. As an industry leader, Michael often has articles published across different publications such as Computer Weekly and Compliance Today. Michael is often asked to speak at different events such as RSA, InfoSec Europe, and Black Hat.

Michael Aminzade's Events

Setting Moonshot Goals

Date: Wednesday, 9 October

Track One

Presented by: Michael Aminzade, QSA, PCIP, CISSP, C|CISO, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, ISO LA27001, Vice President, Managed Compliance Services, VikingCloud and Chelsea Lopez, Risk Director, FIS

On the 12th of September 1962, at Rice University, John F. Kennedy said “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills...” The thing is though he wasn't entirely sure how they were going to achieve that. This lofty goal even spawned a term, moon-shot, which is to plan or do something that seems almost impossible, a long-shot. We have somewhat lost that drive, especially when it comes to cyber security. We need to get back to the days of moon-shot goals, we need to invent, and we need to look far ahead to go on the offensive in cyber security.