Michael Bruemmer is Vice President of Consumer Protection and Head of Global Data Breach Resolution at Experian. The group is a leader helping businesses prepare for a data breach, manage consumer crisis response programs and mitigate consumer risk following incidents. With more than 25 years in the industry, Michael brings a wealth of knowledge related to crisis response management from discovery to post-incident clean up. He has handled some of the nation’s largest data breaches during his tenure with Experian and more than 65,000 to date. Michael has educated businesses of all sizes and sectors on pre-breach and breach response planning and delivery. This ranges from how to notify affected consumers, to call center set up and even how to implement identity theft protection services. Michael is a respected speaker and presents to industry organizations across the country. He has provided insight to many trade and business media outlets including Dark Reading, IT Business, CIO, Info Security, Security Week, Health IT Security, Wall Street Journal, and American Banker among others. He has been a guest columnist for SecurityInfoWatch and has appeared on broadcast channels such as Fox Business. He currently resides on the Ponemon Responsible Information Management (RIM) Board and NetDiligence Advisory Board. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Labor Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Areas of expertise: Data breach, fraud & identity management, market trends

Industries: E-commerce / retail, financial services, fintech telecommunications, cable & utilities

-- Michael Bruemmer