Ben Ridgway has been involved in a wide variety of projects during his security career. He started with a position at NASA looking for vulnerabilities in spacecraft control systems. Following that, he took a job with the MITRE Corporation as part of a team which consulted for the US Government. This work involved everything from pen testing high assurance systems to building out Cyber Security Operations Centers. He was hired by Microsoft in 2011 to be one of the original security engineers on Microsoft's Azure cloud. He helped founding the security incident response team for Microsoft Azure. Over time that scope has grown across multiple online service, cloud, and machine learning technologies. Today he is the lead of the Microsoft Security Response Center - Trust and Strategy Team. This team is responsible for managing critical security incidents within Microsoft's cloud and artificial intelligence services while preparing for the incidents of tomorrow.