Dr. Michael C. Redmond, PhD
MBCP, FBCI, CEM, PMP, MBA, ISO Certified (US Army Retired)

12/2005 – Present REDMOND WORLDWIDE, Inc. New York, NY
CEO and Lead Consultant

Cyber Security Incident Response and SIEM, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Crisis/Emergency Management.

She has consulted for and trained companies and government agencies in Nigeria, Angola, Chile, Dominican Republic and throughout the United States and Canada.

History

  • REDMOND WORLDWIDE CEO and Lead Consultant (Cyber/Information Security, BCM, DR, Emergency Management, and Internal Audit) 12/2005 – Present
  • ENTERPRISE RISK WORLDWIDE Co-CEO and Lead Consultant (Cyber/Information Security, BCM and DR) New York, NY 1/2004 – 12/2004
  • KPMG Senior Manager (Cyber/Information Security, BCM, DR, Emergency Management, and Internal Audit)  New York, NY 9/2001 – 12/2003
  • DELOITTE Senior Manager, Risk and Advisory Services (Cyber/Information Security, BCM, DR, Emergency Management, and Internal Audit) New York, NY – 2/1997 – 9/2001
  • CHUBB SERVICES CORPORATION Senior Manager (Information Security, BCM, DR, and Emergency Management) New York, NY 2/93 – 2/97
  • THE BANK OF NEW YORK BCM and DR New York, NY 2/88 – 2/93
  • Michael served over 16 years as a volunteer in various positions on the Board for Contingency Planning Exchange in New York.
  • She also served as a volunteer for 10 years on Association Contingency Planners Chapters both in New York and the Rochester/Syracuse/Buffalo chapter where she is the Program Director.
  • Michael designed the first Business Continuity program for New York University around the tenets contained within DRII’s 10 Professional Practices and taught the classes as an Adjunct Professor. She later taught Continuity Management within the Emergency Management Master’s Program at John Jay University as an Adjunct Professor.
  • Michael C. Redmond has excelled in the field. She was recognized by Who’s Who, received a Communication Award for her complimentary monthly newsletter that has many practitioners from all over the world who subscribe to the mailing list and listed many times as influencer of the week on LinkedIn groups.

Recent Honors

  • Women of Distinction Award for Cyber Security.
  • Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals
  • Continental Who’s Who
  • Academic and Professional National Honor Society “Order of the Sword & Shield”
  • Communication Award for Business Continuity Continental Broadcasting Network honored her for contribution to the field of Business Continuity through such endeavors as monthly newsletter, webinars and articles

Honors

Michael was selected to in May 2014 to speak about the importance of Business Continuity to the First Ladies of Central Africa at a UN event this year. In 2000, the UN also selected Michael to write the prologue on Risk for the UN book on Disaster Recovery which was endorsed by President Clinton and Nelson Mandela and given to the Heads of State for every country in the world.

Recent Speaking Experience

  • Co-spoke with the Deputy CISO for NYS at NYS Annual Cyber Security Conference on Cyber Security Incident Response
  • Presented at ISACA Western New York Annual Conference on Cyber Security Incident Response
  • Keynote speaker at eBRP user conference held in Niagara Falls. Spoke on Business Continuity, IT Disaster Recovery and Enterprise Risk Management.
  • Keynote speaker at PMI Wisconsin Conference.  Spoke on Business Continuity and Enterprise Risk Management.
  • Keynote Speaker at UN Event for First Ladies of Central Africa. Spoke about the importance of Continuity Planning within Central Africa.
  • Michael volunteered to assist training members of the Association of Contingency Planners Rochester/Syracuse/Buffalo Chapter study for their DRII Certifications. Members from over 11 different companies attended weekly training classes for 3 months before taking their test and receiving DRII certifications.
  • Michael’s Business Continuity Audio Program, originally developed in 2005 and updated annually, has been and is being used by many organizations to train personnel on the proper way to do Business Continuity. Many personnel have reported successfully getting certified by BCI & DRII after using this program to study. This program was granted 20 CEU’s for DRII certified personnel who use the CD’s to maintain proficiency in the field.
  • In helping her consulting clients, she has developed innovative ways to help them not only pass their audits, but also to effectively put full Plans in place where there were none. Through her ability to resolve issues, as well as her resourcefulness and innovation in the designing and writing of plans she has helped many companies to be better prepared in less time.
  • Michael conducted Risk Assessments and Impact interviews simultaneously, eliciting strategies during the interviews as well as developing strategies that the clients had not previously considered. This unselfishly cut tremendous billing hours for her clients as well as expedited the planning process to get them to a prepared environment sooner. By writing the plans, with straightforward action steps and well defined teams, the plans were executed efficiently during tests that she designed. ·  For one client, Michael designed and executed creative table top tests with not only the Cyber Incident Response Team (CSIRT) but also had the BCP and DR Teams as well as the business functions involved in the same table top tests. This resulted in the Cyber Incident Response Team (CSIRT), DR Team and BCP Team identifying large “disconnects” that allowed the planners to update the plans before a large test was undertaken.