Round Rock, TX, July 9, 2018 – Third Rock, cyber risk management firm, announces the addition of Mike Moran, CISSP to its Board of Advisors as Senior Security Advisor. Moran is a veteran of the software industry and is focused primarily on applications and development tools, with a secondary focus on high availability, high traffic web sites.   His past projects include architecting and supporting real-time online access to three Olympics and maintaining a healthcare billing system with over 100 million bills per month.

“I’ve known Mike for over 20 years and consider him one of the best database and security experts in the world.” says Robert Felps, Third Rock CEO. “He also has proven experience as a site reliability engineer on high traffic websites with high availability demands, which makes him a great system expert of a broad range of UNIX and Linux systems.”

Moran stated that “Third Rock is advancing cyber risk to deliver a simple, complete set of tools for cyber risk not matched by competitors that clients can easily manage against cyber threats.  I am excited to be part of this innovative team.” He will focus on improving application robustness, tightening security implementations and providing cyber security expertise for Third Rock’s unique software, CyberCompass™.’ He recently completed network and vulnerability scans for a company and discovered several vulnerabilities that had not been uncovered by their IT functions.

Moran is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, earning his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Purdue University and his graduate degree in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin.