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Michael@michaelikaplan.com | (912) 244-0394 |
Non-Technical Professional Competencies
Public Speaking ● Published Author ● Training and Instruction ● Curriculum Development ● Business & Financial Management ● Auditing & Compliance ● Report Writing & Document Management
Current Employment
Michael I. Kaplan
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Savannah, GA
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06/2016 – Present
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Corporate Information Security Officer
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I'm
a Cyber Security Instructor, Information Systems Risk Manager, and Disaster
Recovery Engineer. My technical areas of specialization are Cyber Security
Architecture, IT Risk Assessment, and IT Program Audit / Compliance. I also possess
a high degree of subject matter expertise regarding conformance to Cyber
Security Frameworks (CSF) including HIPAA Compliance (HITECH, GAPP), NIST SP
800 Series, ISO 27000 Series, PCI-DSS, SSAE 16 (SOC1, SOC2), and FedRAMP
(moderate, high).
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Periweb
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Trinidad & Tobago
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03/2011 – Present
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Chief Information Security Officer
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I
serve as a Program Security Consultant for Periweb, an enterprise technology
company based in Trinidad and Tobago, overseeing all aspects of cyber
security detection, protection, response, and recovery.
My
responsibilities include, but are not limited to: integrating administrative,
technical, and physical IS controls with all contracted IT projects;
establish logical and physical security monitoring capabilities for network
operations and infrastructure; oversee regulatory and security policy
compliance for internal and external projects; oversee ongoing logical and
physical risk assessment and analysis programs, and establish effective
incident response programs according to corporate policy; and, serve in an
advisory capacity to Periweb business partners on cyber security issues that
impact both parties in the business partnership.
Additionally,
I am also responsible for a wide variety of training and development
initiatives, for both internal and external stakeholders. The primary focus
of this training includes holistic risk assessment and incident handling
strategies, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning, and physical
security strategies with special emphases on the threat of social engineering.
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Relevant Previous Employment
Phase
2 Advantage
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Savannah, GA
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01/2006 – 06/2011
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Director of Training
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My
responsibilities included, but were not limited to: developing proprietary
training courses for a wide range of clients in both academic and corporate
sectors; presenting lectures, training seminars and professional development
seminars; design, publishing and fulfillment of training materials to
institutions of higher education and e-learning platforms.
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· Wrote
The Prior-Service Entrepreneur, an
Amazon Five-Star Best Seller, that is currently used as a course textbook in
more than 30 universities.
· Taught
a 5-week professional development lecture series at the University of South
Carolina School of Business (Topics: To view full descriptions of the
seminars offered, please visit my Training Seminars page).
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Corporate
Protective Services Group
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Savannah, GA
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1994 - 2001
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Corporate Executive Protection Specialist
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Areas
of operation: United States, Caribbean and Latin America. Responsibilities
included conducting advance site security surveys for protection details;
planning event sites to include security, intelligence gathering and
coordinating with local, state and federal authorities; providing secure
motorcade transportation for dignitaries and staff; directing and managing
investigative threat assessments; training and development of protective
service agents in driving and tactical operations.
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Special
Projects Operations Group
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Miami, FL
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1987 - 1994
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Federal Fugitive Task Force Agent
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Responsibilities
included the investigation, location, and apprehension of federally sought
fugitives in the United States and Caribbean Community, performing liaison
functions with all levels of law enforcement both domestically and abroad,
coordination and implementation of extradition proceedings, providing
seminars for law enforcement and civilian agencies, and direct operational
oversight of agents in Florida and the Caribbean.
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U.S.
Army
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Ft. Bragg, NC
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1982 – 1987
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11th Special Forces Group
(Airborne)
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Responsible
for training foreign indigenous forces in U.S. policy, doctrine, tactics and
strategy. This included, but was not limited to: planning and training a wide
variety of operational and analytical intelligence functions; analysis of
Soviet special operations forces (doctrine and strategy); designing training
curricula for US personnel on the topics of Soviet language and culture; and,
operational assignments as required by my command.
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The
training I received while serving in this capacity afforded the opportunity
to write Edge of Freedom: Knife Defense
Tactics for a Changing World.
· This
training manual became an Amazon “Best Seller” in 2015
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Military and Federal Agency Letters of Reference Available Upon Request