Miguel (Mike) Villegas

Senior Vice President at K3DES LLC

Miguel (Mike) O. Villegas is a Senior Vice President for K3DES LLC. He performs and QA’s PCI-DSS and PA-DSS assessments for K3DES clients. He also manages the K3DES ISO/IEC 27001:2005 program. He is also founder of iSecurePrivacy, LLC and was previously Director of Information Security at Newegg, Inc. for five years.

Mike has over 35 years of Information Systems security, IT Risk, and IT audit experience. Mike was previously Vice President & Technology Risk Manager for Wells Fargo Services responsible for IT Regulatory Compliance and was previously a partner at Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young for their information systems security and IS audit groups over a span of nine years. Mike is a CISA, CISSP, CEH, CDPSE, CSX|A, and CSX|F. He is also a PCI QSA, PA-QSA, PCI SSA, and PCI SSLCA for K3DES. Mike was also a contributing writer for SearchSecurity from TechTarget with over 150 articles published.

Mike is currently Certifications Chair for ISACA Los Angeles Chapter where he has chaired and taught certification courses for over 20 years. He was president of the LA ISACA Chapter during 2010-2012 and president of the SF ISACA Chapter during 2005-2006. He was the SF Fall Conference Co-Chair from 2002–2007 and also served for two years as Vice President on the Board of Directors for ISACA International.