Matt Burrough is a Principal Red Team Manager at Microsoft with over a decade of hands-on offensive security and cloud penetration testing experience, and the author of Pentesting Azure Applications. He leads and mentors Red and Purple teams across internal and Federal engagements, presenting technical risks to CISOs and CVPs while shaping company security standards. His background spans deep technical roles—from reverse engineering and custom hardware/software tools to developer work on voice recognition and support platforms—giving him a rare blend of software engineering and applied adversary tradecraft. A locksport enthusiast and co-author on a book about physical security, he brings unconventional physical-attack insight to cloud and enterprise assessments. Based in Seattle, he holds a Master’s in Computer Science and a graduate certificate in Computer Security from UIUC, and is noted for translating complex technical findings into actionable policy and training.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Security Networking and System Administration, B.S. Computer Security Networking and System Administration at Rochester Institute of Technology
Cisco Networking Academy
Master of Computer Science (CS), Master of Computer Science (CS) at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Matt Burrough - Principal Red Team Manager at Microsoft