Assistant Professor of Practice | Member of the Graduate Faculty
Michael Galde is a career-track assistant professor of practice for the cyber operations program at the College of Applied Science and Technology CAST) at the University of Arizona. Before being appointed as a full-time faculty in 2020, Michael worked in industrial control systems research at the Nebraska Applied Research Institute NARI) in Omaha, Nebraska as a cybersecurity engineer II. As a contractor, Michael previously worked as an intelligence analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency DIA) where he developed digital tools and procedures in the agency’s prisoner of war missing in action POW/MIA) mission. Michael earned a Master of Science in Cybersecurity at the University of Nebraska in 2019 and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science in 2013. Michael’s research areas of interest include developing automated recovery of industrial control systems, increasing Industrial network visibility to aid intrusion detection systems, and cyber security implementations.