Mike McPhee

Mike McPhee is a Cybersecurity Principal Solutions Engineer with Cisco based in New York, covering customers globally. While here, he has worked for 14 years and focused on consulting on the architecture and designs of security and network infrastructures. With expertise in systems engineering, security frameworks, threat intelligence, and both red and blue team operations, Mike helps craft actionable strategies, develop training, steer product roadmaps, and enable security operators. As a speaker and educator, he is a five-time Cisco Live Distinguished Speaker and Hall of Fame member. Mike is an outage waiting to happen, and his customers draw upon his extensive experience in messing things up yet learning from the experience. Prior to joining Cisco, Mike spent 6 years in the U.S. Navy and another 10 working on communications systems as a systems engineer and architect for defense contractors, where he helped propose, design, and develop secure command & control networks and elect