Michael Hamilton
About
Michael Hamilton is from Seattle, Washington, United States. Michael is currently CISO Emeritus at Datec Inc., located in Seattle, WA. Michael also works as Chief Technology Officer at PISCES International, a job Michael has held since Nov 2025. In Michael's previous role as a Field CISO at Lumifi Cyber, Michael worked in until Nov 2025. Prior to joining Lumifi Cyber, Michael was a Founder and CISO at Critical Insight and held the position of Founder and CISO. Prior to that, Michael was a Founder and President at Critical Informatics, Inc., based in Bremerton, WA from Oct 2015 to Mar 2016. Michael started working as Partner at MK Hamilton and Associates in Bremerton, WA in Oct 2013. From Apr 2006 to Oct 2013, Michael was Chief Information Security Officer at City of Seattle, WA. Prior to that, Michael was a Managing Consultant at VeriSign Global Security Consulting from Feb 2004 to Mar 2006. Michael started working as Senior Principal Consultant at Guardent, Inc in Feb 2000.
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Michael Hamilton's current jobs
In this role I provide objective cybersecurity support to Datec customers and help to vet new vendor partners of the company.
Managing technology, technical work force, PISCES analysts and interns, and acting as community coordinator for our data sharing partners.
Michael Hamilton's past jobs
Critical Informatics is the next step in the evolution of managed monitoring and response for infrastructure. As the attack surface expands with the adoption of IOT for smart cities and utilities, prevention of bad security outcomes becomes more difficult. Our Critical Insight platform and SOC analysts monitor these networked technologies, and our analytics algorithms identify operational efficiencies while security events are quickly resolved.
MKH&A provides physical and cyber security services for the infrastructure that keeps us alive: local government, tribal organizations, 911 centers, public utility and other special purpose districts. We specialize in the security of transportation management, communication systems for public safety and law enforcement, water and energy utilities and emergency management. Our business strategy is to execute on four areas of focus: consulting services, product sales, managed services and people management.
Specification and application of information security policy and standards across a federation of City departments, including utilities and public safety; development of compliance programmatics for PCI, FERC/NERC, HIPAA, E-Discovery and breach reporting requirements; management of information security monitoring and incident response; risk management of Citywide development projects; executive status reporting; budget preparation; vendor management.
Information Security architect, consultant, sales support, and project/program management for Guardent consulting clients.
Firewall sales (BorderWare, Checkpoint) as well as custom firewall creation using open-source; security consulting; managed URL/acceptable-use enforcement for clients in the Southern California area.