Solving the Identity Theft Crisis: Can Consumer Confidence Be Restored?

Speaker Bios

Michael Jackson
Associate Director Technology Supervision Branch
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Mr. Jackson has over 30 years of experience in bank supervision and is currently the Associate Director of the Technology Supervision Branch in the Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection (DSC). His responsibilities include managing the Branch and its two sections, Applied Technology and Information Technology. The Applied Technology Section is responsible for a variety of important areas, a liaison role in developing, maintaining and monitoring internal systems and access responsibilities with external clients. The Information Technology Section is responsible for the National Examination program, Bank's IT examinations, policy development, Congressional, government and management reporting, FFIEC IT Subcommittee, coordinating Regional Offices' IT programs, and various internal IT projects. His duties also include cyber security and identity theft initiatives. He has spoken on Identity Theft issues on C-SPAN and Japanese Public television.

He joined the E-Banking Branch in November 2001 and became Acting Chief of the branch in January 2002 and was appointed Associate Director June 30, 2002. The branch name was changed in 2003. He is currently the Chairman of the FFIEC IT Subcommittee of the Task Force on Supervision. Mr. Jackson is a member of numerous IT related committees in the FDIC. He is also an FDIC representative on the Financial Banking Information Infrastructure Committee that is chaired by the Department of Treasury.

He started in the field as a safety and soundness field examiner. He was a former FDIC & FFIEC instructor, for over 15 years, at the FDIC training center. He has taught various assistant examiners, examiner, personal computer, and information systems school. He assisted in developing the first re-write of the Information Systems Handbook. Mr. Jackson has served various details to several divisions in the FDIC where he was involved in closed bank and closed S&L activities. He was also a former review examiner in two Regional Offices. He served an 8 month detail to FDIC's headquarters to implement FDIC's Y2K program and database in 1997.

He is a graduate of Central State University, Wilberforce, OH. — Degree in Accounting.

He had attended numerous seminars and conferences on bank supervision, auditing, and Information Technology.

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