Michael is Deputy Director of Cyber Policy and Capabilities in the Government Security Group within the Cabinet Office. Michael has been working in Government for over a decade now and worked on securing government transformation. Michael has worked in a variety of industries, from embedded systems to real time trading systems, games console programming to large content management systems. He holds a BSc, CISSP, and is an AWS Certified Practitioner. He has been a regular speaker at international conferences on the topics of Agile, DevOps, Security and Technical Architecture for nearly 20 years. Michael is a published author and recognised expert in cybersecurity, and he still writes code when someone lets him.