Michael Burch is the Director of Application Security at Security Journey. Burch has diverse work experience that spans various industries and roles. Michael currently serves as the Director of Application Security at Security Journey, where they are responsible for creating vulnerable code examples and managing a team of application security engineers. Before this, they worked as an Application Security Engineer at the same company, developing security training content and leading the creation of secure coding best practices.
Michael has also worked as a Senior Cyber Security Specialist for the North Carolina National Guard. In this role, they led the Cyber Network Defender program and mentored a team of soldiers in communication engineering and security. Michael also served as a Cyber Security Specialist, responding to incidents, conducting network assessments, and maintaining security systems. He has held positions at Lockheed Martin as a Software Developer, where they worked on web application development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and C#. Additionally, they worked as a Senior Desktop Support Technician at CACI International Inc.., ensuring computer system security and performance.