Michael Masterson, FIP

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BD

Manager, Information Security

Michael Masterson is certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a CIPP/US, CIPT and IAPP Fellow (FIP). He is a Senior Security Analyst at BD (BDX), a global medical technology company and medical device manufacturer. Michael is responsible for the company’s information security policies and for privacy compliance within IT. He conducts PIAs with business representatives, technologists and counsellors to practice good data protection and to maintain compliant legal postures in 50 countries where the company operates.



Prior to BD Michael was an IT consulting manager at E&Y and served at technical startups, large companies and consulting firms including Narus, Taos, Barnes & Noble, and Masterson Consulting. He is the author of two books about databases and a book about the Internet domain name system (DNS).



Michael has been at BD 15 years where his first privacy work began in 2009 when asked to lead a PIA enabling the company to consolidate multiple regional ERP systems into a global, U.S.-based instance. Since then he’s led many PIAs, large and small, employing a variety of approaches, templates, and tools.