Michael Bailey

Palo Alto Networks

Senior Security Automation EngineerDecember 2021 - Present
DevOps EngineerFebruary 2021 - December 2021
DFIR Consultant (in Merger)September 2020 - Feb 2021

Taking a advantage of all that Palo has to offer as a best-in-class product enterprise to engineer the solutions I really always have.

Mason Competitive Cyber
President and FounderAugust 2016 - December 2019

Founded an organization from scratch that had hundreds of members, hosted both Linux and Cryptography advocacy workshops, several corporate guest circuits, weekly meetings, multiple corporate sponsors, enough paperwork to be more complicated than the average SMB, and ran a relatively popular on-site CTF event by graduation. We were characterized even by GMU itself in presentations as very "self sustaining" and conducted our own training under a peer model. While I frequently led training initially, by the time I left my day-of involvement was largely giving weekly announcements and handing it over to students trying to hone their speaking/presentation skills.

Mason Student Run Computing and Technology
Systems Administrator, Executive OfficerMay 2018 - May 2019

As an elected position, I had two primary roles as Systems Administrator.

• As systems administrator, I supported applications such as URL shorteners, a "What's Open at this hour" application, and more. Monitored and responded to abuse complaints, which was critical having a strong .edu presence under my own school. Some of our apps were so well supported that GMU embedded them into their official apps. As the systems admin, I even signed an MOU alongside the president with Mason Dining around SLAs, etc for our most popular application "What's Open." I also introduced a bug bounty program. I personally found and patched a critical CSRF vulnerability in a relatively popular application.
• As an executive officer, I had a vote in org matters. I was a significant part of executive conversations in the organization around events, networking (such as under the Mozilla Open Source Student network), how to handle member disputes, and even having to call a motion of no confidence on the president (unanimously passed) after members and leadership repeatedly complained in camera.

Mason Student Government
Undersecretary of ITMay 2017 - May 2019

According to the 2020 bylaws, the Undersecretary of IT (seemingly renamed) is as such:

[...] The Undersecretary shall be responsible for serving as a liaison between the students and the university technical community, working with various other entities to disseminate information to the student body, and serving as a technical resource to other areas of Student Government as needed.

As Undersecretary of IT, I advocated for 2FA adoption in the university, worked on the official .edu SG website, and tried to address WiFi issues by aggregating data about the problem amongst students. I also attempted to serve as a liaison between STEM majors and the Student Government, which I feel was very productive - after making introductions, a SRCT member took a higher secretary position before I had even left. STEM majors were under-represented in Student Government and I advocated for more outreach.

Mason VSE STEM Outreach
STARS MemberSeptember 2015 - November 2016

Went to local area middle/high schools advocating for George Mason University STEM programs, helping plan the pre-college program, etc. Quickly funding dried up faculty-side but I continued to advocate for STEM and the university on my own, with my own strategies. I also mentored the CyberPatriot team at Frost Middle School in this same vein after funding dried up and I left the outreach arm.