About me
Michele Robinson is currently the Senior Director/Principal Investigator (PI) of the National Cyber Training and Education (NCyTE) Center and the CAE Candidates National Center (CCNC) at Whatcom Community College. With 20+ years of leadership at senior/executive levels in information security; 30 years of public policy/program formulation and execution; and 10 years in the financial services sector focused on fraud detection and loss prevention/recovery, her past appointments include: NCyTE NVC member; Director, California Office of Information Security (OIS) and State Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown; OIS Chief, Security Risk Governance Branch, OIS Deputy CISO/Statewide Incident Management Program Manager; Chief Privacy Officer and other technical/managerial roles within California state government. Michele earned a B.S. in Information Systems from the University of San Francisco and holds CISSP, CISM, CISA and CDPSE certifications.