Job Title
Embedded Systems Security Architect/Group Lead Secure and Assured Solutions

Company/Organization
Draper

Bio
Mike Ridge is an Embedded Systems Security Architect and Group Leader for Systems Engineering, Security and Assured Systems at Draper. In this role, Ridge is a technical leader for secure communications projects on behalf of the United States Department of Defense. With extensive experience in the application of cryptographic processes into protocols and systems in support of securing national security systems, Ridge has led numerous network security teams and the development and implementation of security standards.

Ridge is a cybersecurity expert with extensive experience at corporate, government, research and startup organizations. His career includes positions as a Surface Warfare Officer for the U.S. Navy, manager of an integrated yield team at a government electronics foundry and lead engineer for the National Security Agency’s High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor program. Earlier in his career, Ridge led MITRE’s NSA team to develop a lightweight crypto solution for small form factor unmanned aerial vehicles for the US Department of Defense. Prior to MITRE, Ridge worked as a staff engineer at both Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble with a focus on statistical process control and experiment design. Ridge is also an entrepreneur. Recently he founded and managed an automotive security company focused on building cyber enumeration tools.

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