Self-proclaimed global cyber security warrior, Micki Boland is a security architect with Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. She has over 20 years in ICT and security system engineering, design, and architecture with the United States Army, Sprint, Nortel Networks, and Avaya. Micki’s focus is helping enterprise customers, SIs, MSPs and Telcos reduce risk by architecting security, visibility, and resiliency into the software defined data center and cloud environments. Micki is a CISSP and holds a Master of Science in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MBA with global security concentration from East Carolina University.