Mikhael Felker

Mikhael Felker is director of information security and risk management for Farmers Insurance. He is also an advisor for the Safe-T Executive Advisory Committee. In the past decade, he has taken on a number of information security roles including engineering, teaching, writing, research and management. His sector experience includes insurance, defense, healthcare, nonprofit/education and technology/Internet, seeing first-hand the variance in information security culture and program maturity. Felker received his M.S. in information security policy and management from Carnegie Mellon University and B.S. in computer science from UCLA. He has over 50-plus publications and has been a speaker for RSAC, CSA, ISSA, ISACA, ISC2 and OWASP events.