Primary Job Title VP & General Counsel Primary Organization Nexum
Location Amherst, New Hampshire, United States Regions East Coast, New England, Northeastern US Gender Male Also Known As Mike Scher
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Mike Scher serves as Vice President and General Counsel for Nexum. An attorney and systems security specialist, Mike has experience in IT risk mitigation on both the legal and technical fronts since 1993. At Nexum, he is a corporate officer and spearheads the Business Services Group, which comprises Nexum's legal department and security
assessment and compliance management team.
Before joining Nexum, Mike was Director of Neohapsis Labs, an independent IT security product testing organization. He has served as Director of Security and Network Infrastructure for an e-commerce startup, and worked as a Sr. Network Security Consultant for the Tribune Company, building and auditing both corporate policy and corporate firewalls.
Mike holds bachelors, masters, and JD degrees from Duke University and is ABD in a PhD program at the University of Chicago, where his research has focused on the changing law and culture of unauthorized access to computers and communications systems.
Mike is a regular author and speaker on security and policy, touching on issues such as ethics and technology law at the 14th USENIX Security Symposium, compliance and technology convergence at the July 2005 KY InfraGard meeting, authentication mechanisms and technical evidence at the ABA's 2002 Cybercrime Conference, and both compliance-related liability and single sign-on in the USENIX journal "login;" not to mention a talk on the politics of DNS at DefCon 8.
