Michael Brice

Position Alignment

Michael Brice is the Founder and President of BW Cyber Services , as well as th e Lead for the firm’s Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) service offering . In this capacity, he is in constant demand for various C – Level and related strategic engagements that vary from in – person PE Portfolio offsites speaking engagement f ocus ing on critical CEO and CFO cybersecurity risks, to long – term vCISO outsourcing for highly regulated financial services organizations that do not possess in – house cyber competenc y . Michael also maintains strong professional relationships with multiple commercial , financial, and governmental organizations – the most notable of which is his personal relationship with senior special agents from the FBI’s financial cyber division in N e w Y ork City . In this capacity, he has presented in – tandem with the FBI on multiple public and private executive panels and related speaking even ts . Relatedly, as the Lead for the firm’s Financial Digital Forensics and Incident Response services, he maintains an on – going relationship with the FBI in which he can immediately involve highly specialized government assistance for critical client cyber incident/breach activities that are time – sensitive or highly impactful from a financial perspective (e.g., wire fraud , critical data loss, or ransomware ). 

Relevant Experience

Michael has more than 30 years providing technology, security, and related cybersecurity consulting solutions for multiple industries, including deep commercial experience in the financial services industry as well as classified government operations.

After graduating from college, he served as an officer in the US Marine Corps where he received specialized training by the National Security Agency in Signals Intelligence. His experience in the Marine Corps include multiple deployments (classified and unclassified) to include serving in the First Gulf Ware. Upon departure from the military, he has held executive and C-Level positions leading IT strategy, security, and related enterprise services for blue chip consultancies and publicly traded corporations. Most notably:

• Principal at Booz-Allen & Hamilton leading a large team of management consultants in the US and Europe who provided an array of strategic services that included classified operations for the US. Pacific Command, Strategic Assessments for the Pentagon, and commercial (banking) IT Strategy .
• Partner for Unisys leading an IT Strategy service offering to the commercial sector.
• Chief Information Officer (CIO) at a 1200-seat publicly traded company (the Industrial Distribution Group).

In his role at BW Cyber Services, Michael has personally provided multiple strategic C-Level cyber-consulting engagements in support of highly-regulated financial services organizations – to include strategic support as a direct report to the CISO at one of the world’s largest hedge funds.