Michael Figueroa
Michael A. Figueroa is an expert and global leader in cybersecurity. He is the Senior Director of Strategy and Information Security Services atToptal, a global network company of top talent in business, design, and technology that helps companies scale their teams on demand.
He has also served as the Cyber Innovations and Services Lead atDraper Labsin Cambridge, MA. In this role, he primarily focussed on transitioning an advanced secure processor based on the open RISC-V ISA to market.
Michael has also served as the program manager for advanced research in reverse engineering tools and applying non-security emerging technologies such asdeep machine learningand human analytics to security problems, designs secure solutions based on those research technologies and others from outside Draper, and managed service delivery for integrating those technologies into existing IT environments.
He previously focused on large scale system integration with mobile and cloud technologies as a research and software development manager for an innovative secure network and communications platform.
Michael has also served as a CISO at a late-stage financial services startup, business executive for a security consulting startup, and managed security integration for several Government and commercial large-scale systems integration efforts.
Michael is a certifiedyouth soccer coach, world traveller, and philosopher. He holds a B.S. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences fromMITand an M.F.S. in High Tech Crime Investigations fromGeorge Washington University.
Some of his notablepublicationsinclude “Reduced Realistic Attack Plan Surface for Identification of Prioritized Attack Goals” and “A SOUND Approach to Security in Mobile and Cloud-Oriented Environments.”
