Biography

Mike Cullen is a Director with Baker Tilly, a national accounting and advisory firm. Mike leads the firm's Higher Education and Research Institution's cybersecurity and IT risk team. For over 19 years, he has worked with a variety of higher education institutions with various missions, both public and private.

Mike has significant experience leading and executing IT risk assessments, myriad IT internal audits, various IT consulting projects, and multiple IT compliance reviews. He has also led strategic IT reviews, cybersecurity assessments, information privacy reviews, application audits, development of IT processes/policies/procedures, digital forensic investigations, and IT governance evaluations.

Mike has presented to a variety of audiences, including Association of College and University Auditors (ACUA), National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) regional associations CACUBO (Central) and EACUBO (Eastern), National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA), Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE), various Institute for Internal Auditors (IIA) chapters, regional, national conferences, and at multiple universities.

Mike is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US).