Michael Magyar

Bio

Michael Magyar is a cybersecurity architect, cloud engineer, penetration tester, and vCISO. He has a diverse background that includes a law degree, 10+ years as a teacher, full-stack application development, and the OSCP pentest certification.

Michael previously worked for an MSSP where he managed a mult-client security operations center and all professional services teams, including penetration testing, digital forensics, and compliance engineering. In 2019, he started Cyqual LLC so that he could offer more customized services and better address customer needs. Since then, he has been the subject matter expert on many successful projects, including the following:

• AWS architecture revamps
• Cloud migrations
• Network redesigns
• System security hardening
• Identity centralization
• SDLC modernizations (devOps/devSecOps)
• SIEM implementations
• Risk assessments
• Policy and procedure development
• Tabletop exercises
• FedRAMP buildouts
• CMMC / NIST 800-171 buildouts
• SOC 2 and ISO 27001 buildouts
• External and internal network penetration tests
• Web application penetration tests
• etc.

He has also designed and taught ethical hacking, software security, and digital forensics classes at the University of Tampa.

Links

• LinkedIn

Recent Posts

• 2025-06-27: AWS Account ID Enumeration Through Root User MFA