Summary
Mike Boya is a Staff Security Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and leading incident response, SOC, and security engineering programs for major media companies including The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros. He combines deep offensive skills (OSCP, GWAPT, GPEN) with elite defensive credentials (GSE, GCIA, GCIH, CISSP) to design detections, run IR operations, and harden cloud (AWS/Azure) and on-prem environments. Mike has repeatedly led global deployments of IDS, full-packet capture, and logging at scale, and has a track record of maturing SOC processes, recruiting and training analysts, and implementing security architecture reviews. A researcher at heart, he pairs malware analysis and web application testing with production-focused engineering to drive measurable visibility and risk reduction. Though primarily enterprise-focused, his SANS Red Team Cyber Guardians membership signals continued engagement with cutting-edge adversary techniques and community-driven threat research.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Networking, Security, and Systems Administration, Information Security, Graduated with Honors, Networking, Security, and Systems Administration, Information Security, Graduated with Honors at Rochester Institute of Technology
Northwest Catholic High School