Michael Bruemmer is Vice President of the Experian Data Breach Resolution group and Consumer Protection at Experian. The Group is a leader in helping businesses prepare for a data breach and mitigate consumer risk following breach incidents.
With more than 25 years in the industry, Michael brings a wealth of knowledge related to data breach preparedness and breach management from discovery to post-incident clean up. He has handled some of the nation’s largest breaches over his tenure with Experian and more than 25,000 to date. Michael has educated businesses of all sizes and sectors through pre-breach and breach response planning and delivery, including notification processes to affected consumers, call center set up and identity theft protection services.
He is a respected speaker and presents to industry organizations across the country on the topic of data breaches and provides insight to many trade and business media outlets including Dark Reading, IT Business, CIO, Info Security, Security Week, Health IT Security, Wall Street Journal, American Banker and 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.