Michael Gips, JD, CPP, CSyP, CAE, Michael Gips | LinkedIn, Michael is a security expert, attorney, author, journalist, researcher, and business executive.
Michael Gips, JD, CPP, CSyP, CAE, is a decorated security professional, attorney, writer, journalist, researcher, and business executive. He is principal of Global Insights in Professional Security, where he consults for multinational corporations, security providers, academic institutions, utilities, law firms, nonprofits, healthcare organizations, and other businesses and agencies. Previously he served as both the Chief Security Officer and Chief Global Knowledge and Learning Officer for ASIS International, where he oversaw Learning, Content, Certification, Standards & Guidelines, Production, Enterprise Security Risk Management, and other departments. He developed the CSO Roundtable, an organization that includes hundreds of the most senior security executives at the biggest corporations around the world, as a membership group within ASIS. He also served as editor and publisher of Security Management, where he authored hundreds of articles.
Mike is also a senior advisor for Cardinal Point Strategies, a senior advisor for the Network Contagion Research Institute, and a Partner in the Knowledgebase of Insider Threats. He is also an associate with the Netherlands-based insider risk firm Signpost Six. Other services he provides include workplace investigations, social media monitoring, litigation support as an expert witness, and staff training. Mike also serves on the advisory boards of several organizations that provide technology and services in crisis management, emergency response, executive protection, violence prevention, and robotics.
Mike has received many commendations, including Outstanding U.S. Security Consultant (OSPAs, 2022), #1 most influential security thought leader in security (IFSEC, 2022), top twenty most influential security leaders (International Security Journal, 2022), #6 most influential thought leader in security (IFSEC, 2021), and one of the most influential people in security (Security magazine, 2019). He has received more than fifteen awards for his writing, most recently for his monthly leadership column in Security magazine.
On the volunteer side, Mike is president of the Life Safety Alliance and heads the security committee for a large house of worship. He was on the committees that updated ASIS’s CSO standard and developed ASIS’s ESRM guideline. He also mentors many young professionals.
Among his many research publications are papers and reports on ESRM (2010), the size and scope of the security sector (2012, 2014), convergence (2019), blockchain (2020), business continuity and Covid (2021), and an article on security professionalization coauthored with Dr. Alison Wakefield for the third edition of The Handbook of Security (2022). He is currently researching the security benefits and threats of drones.
Besides his column for Security magazine, Mike regularly contributes to Security Management, International Security Journal, Security Technology Executive, Security Journal Americas, and other publications. He frequently presents on security and legal topics at conferences and webinars, on issues such as disinformation, insider threat, trends in access control, and security skill sets. A graduate of Tufts University (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude) and Harvard Law School, Mike also has obtained security certificates from R.L. Oatman & Associates (2006), Wharton (2015), Tel Aviv University International (2016), IE Business School (2017), and Signpost Six (2021).