Tom Burt leads Microsoft’s Customer Security and Trust (CST) team.

CST is a cross-disciplinary team of engineers, lawyers, policy advocates, project managers, business professionals, data analysts, and cybercrime investigators. Burt’s team drives continuous improvement to advance customers security and trust in Microsoft’s products and online services. Working with engineering and security teams across the company, CST is responsible for ensuring Microsoft products and online services comply with internal and regulatory security policies and leads programs to provide transparency of our products to governments globally. Burt’s team is formulating and advocating cybersecurity policy globally – advancing the Digital Geneva Convention, the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, and the Defending Democracy Program – and collaborating with public and private organizations to disrupt cyberattacks and support deterrence efforts.

Burt joined Microsoft in 1995 and has held several leadership roles in the Corporate External and Legal Affairs Department. He led the company’s Litigation Group from 1996 to 2007, and most recently led the Digital Trust team.

Burt received his bachelor’s degree in Human Biology from Stanford University and his law degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Washington Law School.