Michael Solomon, CISSP, PMP, GSEC, GWAS, CISM, is a full-time security speaker, consultant, and trainer, and a former college instructor who specializes in database and application-level security topics. As an IT professional and consultant since 1987, he has worked on projects or trained for over 60 major companies and organizations including Earthlink, Nike Corporation, Lucent Technologies, BellSouth, UPS, the US Coast Guard, and Norrell. From 1998 until 2001, he was an instructor in the Kennesaw State University Computer Science and Information Sciences (CSIS) department, where he taught courses on managing software projects, C++ programming, computer organization and architecture, and data communications. Michael has an MS in Computer Science from Emory University (1998), and a BS in Computer Science from Kennesaw State University (1987). He has also contributed to various security certification books for LANWrights, including TICSA Training Guide (Que, 2002) and an accompanying Instructor Resource Kit (Que, 2002), CISSP Study Guide (Sybex, 2003), as well as Security+ Training Guide (Que, 2003). He has most recently co-authored Information Security Illuminated (Jones & Bartlett, 2005) and Computer Forensics JumpStart (Sybex, 2005). Michael also authored and provided the on-camera delivery of LearnKey’s CISSP Prep e-Learning course.

After working for 9 years as a software developer and database administrator, Michael started Solomon Consulting Inc. in 1992, (then called the Solomon Consulting Group). Although the name has slightly changed, the purpose has remained the same: provide the highest quality services to fulfill customers' needs.