Erica Burgess

Cybersecurity and AI Architect

Tyler Technologies

Erica is a cybersecurity and AI architect, and was previously a software engineer and cybersecurity hobbyist for several years before becoming an application security red-teamer in 2018. Since then, she has been earning bug bounties, blogging new CVEs and original exploit techniques, training penetration testers as a technical lead, independently consulting, and, most recently, driving cybersecurity R&D AI projects as an architect. Erica organizes 2600, a local offensive cybersecurity meetup, and has spoken about hacking, generative AI systems, bot writing, and various hacking topics at many conferences and meetups, including DC207, IC2, Tyler Connect, as well as CactusCon, SkyTalks and DEFCON, the world's largest hacker conference. She has also volunteered at Red Team Village at DEFCON in Vegas. Erica holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Southern Maine.