Michael K Robinson

Michael Robinson is the Director of Trust Operations at Shopify. Prior to joining Shopify, Michael worked at Google where he led the Cloud Security and Trust Center. He also managed a security and privacy incident management team. Before that he served as a cyber threat intelligence analyst and senior digital forensic examiner at a large, international corporation. He conducted computer and mobile device forensic investigations for commercial organizations, government agencies, law enforcement, and in the U.S. Intelligence Community. He is the former CIO of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Business Transformation Agency, where he oversaw all information technology and information assurance operations for the agency, including overseeing all incident response and forensic investigations.

Michael was the founding Program Coordinator and an Adjunct Professor for Stevenson University’s Master of Science in Cyber Forensics. He is the recipient of the university’s Rose Dawson Award for outstanding adjunct faculty member of the year. He taught courses in mobile device forensics, intrusion analysis, and cyber warfare. Currently, he is an adjunct professor at George Mason University, the University of Maryland Global Campus, and the University of New Haven, where he teaches graduate courses in digital forensics and incident response. He has guest lectured at various educational institutions, corporations, and government agencies. He has authored multiple journal articles, served as a contributing author and technical editor on multiple books.

He has delivered presentations on digital forensics, incident response, and cyber security at numerous international and national conferences including DEF CON, the DoD / U.S. Cyber Crime Conference, CEIC, HTCIA, InfoSec World, and the BCISS Conference on Intelligence Analysis.

Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, a Master of Science in Information Assurance, a Master of Science in Forensic Studies (concentrating on computer forensics), and a graduate certificate in Applied Intelligence. He is currently pursuing his doctorate.