Faculty
Michael Siegel is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, He is also the Director of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS).
Siegel’s research focuses on the management, strategy, technology, and organizational issues related to cybersecurity with specific interest in vulnerability markets, cyber risk management, dark web business models, IoT endpoint security, vulnerability management, cybersecurity workforce development, and educating management in cybersecurity. He also has done research in the intelligent integration of information systems, risk management, insurgency and state stability, data analytics, healthcare systems, and systems modeling. Siegel has published articles on such topics as simulation modeling for cyber resilience, cyber vulnerability markets, A.I. and cybersecurity, data management strategy, architecture for practical metadata integration, heterogeneous database systems, and managing and valuing a corporate IT portfolio using dynamic modeling of software development and maintenance processes. His research at MIT has continued for over 35 years and includes a wide range of publications, patents and teaching accomplishments.
Featured Publication
"4 Areas of Cyber Risk That Boards Need to Address."Zeijlemaker, Sander, Chris Hetner, and Michael Siegel. Harvard Business Review, June 2, 2023.
Featured Publication
"As Cyber Attacks Increase, Here's How CEOs Can Improve Cyber Resilience."Zeijlemaker, Sander, Michael Siegel, and Daniel Dobrygowski. World Economic Forum, November 15, 2022.
Tony Delvecchio, Tony, Sander Zeijlemaker, Giancarlo De Bernardis, and Michael Siegel, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7131-24. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, April 2024.
Tony Delvecchio, Sander Zeijlemaker, Giancarlo De Bernardis, and Michael Siegel. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, Rome, Italy: February 2024.
Sander Zeijlemaker and Michael Siegel. In One Conference 2023, The Hague, The Netherlands: October 2023.
Ranjan Pal, Stuart Madnick, and Michael Siegel. In Proceedings of Americas Conference on Information Systems, Panama: August 2023.
Security leaders must strengthen their defenses against everyday threats while preparing for potentially devastating attacks. Here’s how to get it done.
Michael Siegel and Ranjan Pal present four action items for using AI as a tool to improve APT cyber-risk management in critical infrastructure.
"Our research recommends ICS (industrial control system) system managers proportionately allocate a cyber-protection budget among ICS assets."
Enterprise cyber-attacks are evolving into market stressors. AI can alleviate these issues and improve cyber-resilience.
"In smaller companies, 60% will be out of business within six months of a severe cyberattack."
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