
Michael Burch
Director of Application Security at Security Journey; ex-Army Green Beret turned security engineer
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Jun 16, 2026
Michael Burch - AI-Enabled Citizen Developers
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Chris RomeoHOST
Honestly, I haven't heard a lot of context for this organizationally in the enterprise right now, so I'm really curious to learn, like what, what did they do and what were the challenges that came out of it?

Michael BurchGUEST
So it's, it's a couple fold, and actually I've had more stories since I even kind of brought that up, interestingly enough.

Michael BurchGUEST
Um, but even given this first use case, obviously, uh, customer won't share a lot of information about them personally, but they came to the problem, they're like, "Hey, we have just been mandated from the top down," right? Which is where a lot of this is coming from.

Michael BurchGUEST
It's a lot of the C-level people that are afraid of that FOMO, right? Uh, we're gonna miss out if we're not AI-enabling everybody across the org.

Michael BurchGUEST
Um, but they have a misconception, right? Like they think enabling them is just giving them a license and saying, "Go." Um, so what ends up happening is this organization came up to us and said, "Hey, we, we need to just even maintain SOC 2 compliance," was one of their first things.

Michael BurchGUEST
They're like, "I've been told that we wanna allow our project managers, our marketers, our just this larger non-technical audience to start prototyping and building applications." So they were like, "We were told to give them GitHub access 'cause that's what we do with everybody else in the organization that has...
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Chris RomeoHOST
Maybe there are people that are just throwing their hands up going, "You know what? I'm gonna go do something else that requires a lot less screen time."