John Michener

John specializes in security architecture, threat modeling and assessment, risk assessment, ACL’s and permissions, cryptographic key management and design, and risk management and mitigation. John has a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and has been working and publishing in the software and data security space for more than 25 years, publishing numerous articles in refereed journals. A former security architect and senior security program manager at Microsoft, John has done 3 computer security startups and has ~ 10 patents, many related to security issues. John was active in the foundation of the Seattle Chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance.