Mike Lopez, Director of Cloud Services at AccessIT Group, has a history of designing cloud architecture with a security focused approach for government and fortune 500 clients. He has worked with private and public cloud environments including AWS, Azure, Oracle, and Google Cloud. Mike leads AccessIT Group’s Cloud practice by helping its customers create strategies for their cloud adoption through a vendor agnostic holistic approach to cloud security. Because of his mixed background, he bridges the traditional gap between security and development teams, helping them work together in the cloud journey. Prior to his role at AccessIT Group, Mike was the Lead Consultant of Professional Services at Check Point Software Technologies and served as the subject matter expert for their cloud security products. As a cloud specialist, Mike is AWS and Azure certified and maintains Check Point CCSE and CCVSE certifications.