Michael Melone has 20 years of information security experience overall, including 16 years in technology and 8 years as an incident responder. He currently works as a principal program manager for the Defender ATP product group gathering feedback and assisting Microsoft's largest and most influential customers throughout their onboarding process.
He was previously one of the initial members of DART, Microsoft's customer-facing targeted attack incident response team. During his tenure he designed the process used by consultants to recover customer networks from targeted attacks and led the development of IRDB, the proprietary threat hunting platform designed to surface attackers hidden within networks.

He holds a masters degree in IT management specializing in information assurance and security from Capella University, and is actively pursuing his executive MBA from University of South Florida. He also holds a number of information security and other technology credentials including CISSP since 2007.
In 2017 Michael self-published his first short book on authorization theory called Think Like a Hacker. This new book is the result of applying its concepts at customers and identifying a single unified approach based on its core algorithm.

1. Introduction

Secure System Concepts

2. Access

3. Authorization

4. Authentication

5. Weakness, Vulnerability, and Exploitation

6. Impact

Designing and Operating a Secure System

7. Identify

8. Protect

9. Detect

10. Respond

11. Recover

12. Closing

13. Acknowledgements