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Mike Britton
Chief Information Officer
Mike Britton is the CIO of Abnormal Security, where he leads the information security team, privacy program, and corporate AI strategy. He is integral in building and maintaining the customer trust program, performing vendor risk analysis, protecting the workforce with proactive monitoring of the multi-cloud infrastructure, and leading the implementation of AI-powered tools and processes to enhance employee efficiency and productivity. He also works closely with the Abnormal product and engineering teams to ensure platform security and serves as the voice of the customer for feature development.
Mike previously spent three years as the CISO of Abnormal Security. Prior to Abnormal, Mike spent six years as the CSO and Chief Privacy Officer for Alliance Data and previously worked for IBM and VF Corporation. He brings 25 years of information security, privacy, compliance, and IT experience from multiple Fortune 500 global companies. Mike holds an MBA from the University of Dallas and a BA in Political Science from the University of Mary Washington.
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Attackers attempt to steal payment information by posing as UPS and FedEx and sending fake shipment notifications about a pending delivery.
Discover the dangers of cross-platform account takeover, the challenges of detecting this attack, and how to implement proactive protection against ATO.
Explore the biggest takeaways from the 2023 FBI IC3 Report, including the steady increase in losses due to business email compromise (BEC).
In this Vision 2024 CISO panel recap, Mike Britton shares some of the biggest takeaways from his conversation with industry-leading CISOs.
Energy and infrastructure organizations face an increased risk of business email compromise and vendor email compromise attacks. Learn more.
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Discover key cybersecurity strategies for protecting your organization against emerging email threats in 2024.
See how attackers are using generative AI in their email attacks to bypass email security solutions and trick employees.
Explore the intricacies of this BazarCall phishing attack that uses a Google Form for heightened authenticity.
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Discover how one threat actor compromised five vendor organizations to commit the same invoice fraud attack against more than a dozen victims.
Discover key cybersecurity takeaways from last week’s email breach on federal agencies by a Chinese APT group.
Business collaboration tools help employees with productivity and communication. But they can also present a number of cybersecurity risks for your business.
Businesses need to stay ahead of malicious apps, social engineering, and more to keep their emails safe.
Learn the biggest risks associated with your vendor relationships and how to protect your organization from Vendor Email Compromise (VEC) attacks.
Abnormal research into an advanced Israel-based threat group puts a spotlight on the continuing rise of BEC attacks.
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January 28th is Data Privacy Day, where individuals and organizations alike can take part in the international effort to safeguard privacy and data.
We've arrived at that time of year—a time for reflection and celebration and spending time with family, and also that time of year where the cyber grinches hope to spoil the holiday fun.
While cybersecurity awareness is a year-round venture, it is especially important to be mindful during certain times of the year. With Thanksgiving here in the United States on Thursday, our thoughts will likely be on our family and friends and everything we have to be thankful for this holiday season.
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As with every equation, there are always two sides and while it can be easy to blame users when they fall victim to scams and attacks, we also need to examine how we build and staff security teams.