On January 22, the Chertoff Group announced the addition of three cybersecurity experts to its team of senior advisors. Michael Johnson, Sammy Migues, and John Steven contribute multifaceted experience to elevate the firm’s technical depth, the company said.
“It is a pleasure to welcome these proven cybersecurity and safety professionals to our team of advisors. The depth and breadth of their collective expertise in the private sector and government will help our cybersecurity clients solve hard problems,” said Executive Chairman Michael Chertoff.
Michael Johnson joins most recently from Meta, where he served as CISO for Meta Financial Technologies (FinTech). He led FinTech product security, security engineering, AI security strategy, AI product security risk assessments, security risk quantification, insider threat program oversight, threat intelligence, IT and enterprise risk management, and cloud safeguarding. Prior to Meta, he served as Capital One’s (COF) senior vice president and CISO, CIO for the U.S. Department of Energy and assistant director for intelligence programs and national security systems in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
Sammy Migues is a recognized cybersecurity technical leader who contributes to cybersecurity solutions spanning software security, governance and risk management models, compliance, metrics and dashboards, threat modeling, DevSecOps, software supply chain security and digital transformation. Among his more recent contributions to the security community, Migues is a creator of the Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM), a set of controls and an assessment methodology for software security program scorecards.
John Steven is a pioneering voice in software and cloud security, with experience shaping the way organizations build and secure technology. His focus is threat modeling, architectural risk analysis, software-defined security governance and automation strategies that drive efficiency and resilience. Previously, as co-CTO of Cigital, Steven transformed the company into the largest and most influential application security firm in the industry.
Source: Chertoff Group
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