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Mike Mariano
Michael is the Chief Information Security Officer at IS Partners as well as the leader of the penetration testing practice for AWA International. Michael has 15+ years’ experience in internal IT operations with 7 years of being involved in various levels of IT auditing with experience with PCI DSS, SOC 2, HITRUST CSF, Risk Assessments and experience working with Security Frameworks (such as ISO and NIST). Michael has worked with/at companies from 10 to 50,000 employees in size. Prior to joining IS Partners, Michael worked as the IT Operations Manager at AVASEK an MSP IS Security firm where he managed a team of six technicians to service 1500 client endpoints as well as the firm's Cloud Hosting Solution. while at AVASEK, Michael also performed gap assessments against HIPPA and NIST Security Frameworks and was a member of the incident response team. Michael’s specialties are IT Security and IT Management. He is experienced in performing security Risk Assessments, enforcing security policies, handling confidential information, deploying and administering network and application security systems, administrating SaaS products, Active Directory (AD), firewalls, routers, and VPN. Michael is HITRUST CCSFP and AWS CP Certified and has maintained various CompTIA Certifications over his career. He is currently working to achieve his GIAC GWAP and OSCP Certification in 2020.
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