Vipin Pavithran is a cyber-security professor at Amrita Center for Cybersecurity Systems and Networks, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. He is the founder and chief mentor of internationally recognized student clubs - amFOSS, Team bi0s, and Team Shakti . He is also known for organizing the premiere InCTF and InCTF Junior - cyber-security contests, which were first of its kind in India when they were …

Paulino Calderon (@calderpwn) is a published author and international speaker with over 12 years of experience in network and application security. When he isn’t traveling to security conferences or consulting for Fortune 500 companies with Websec, a company he co-founded in 2011, he spends peaceful days enjoying the beach in Cozumel, Mexico. He loves open-source software and has contributed to …

Anastasios Stasinopoulos is a Senior Penetration Tester at Obrela Labs - Obrela Security Industries and has a professional experience over 6 years in the field of Information Security working exclusively as a Penetration Tester. Anastasios earned the Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in “Surveying & Geoinformatics Engineering” from Technological Institution of Athens, the Master …

Steve Springett is the Senior Security Architect at ServiceNow, Chicago. Steve educates teams on the strategy and specifics of developing secure software. He practices security at every stage of the development lifecycle by leading sessions on threat modeling, secure architecture and design, static/dynamic/component analysis, offensive research, and defensive programming techniques. Steve’s …

Nishant Sharma leads R&D at Pentester Academy and Attack Defense. He has 8+ years of experience in the information security field including 6+ years in WiFi security research and development. He has conducted classroom trainings in Blackhat USA, HITB Amsterdam/Singapore, RootCon, OWASP NZ Day. He has presented research and conducted workshops at Blackhat USA/Asia, DEF CON China, HITB, RootCon, …

Emily Wenger is a PhD student at the University of Chicago studying machine learning security and privacy. She’s particularly interested in understanding and preventing the unintended uses/abuses of facial recognition technology. Emily and team has built Fawkes, a system that helps individuals inoculate their images against unauthorized facial recognition models. Fawkes achieves this by helping …

Isaac Evans is the leader of r2c (https://r2c.dev/), a small startup working on giving security tools directly to developers. Previously, he conducted research into binary exploitation bypasses for techniques like control-flow integrity and novel hardware defenses on new architectures like RISC-V as a researcher at the US Defense Department under a SFS program and at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Isaac …

Kai Jern (xwings), is Lab Director of The ShepherdLab, of JD Security. His research topic mainly on embedded device, hardware security, blockchain security, reverse engineering and various security topics. He presented his findings in different international security conferences like Defcon, HITB, Codegate, QCon, KCon, Brucon, H2HC and etc. He conducted hardware Hacking course in various places …

HD Moore is the founder and CEO of Critical Research, makers of Rumble, a network discovery and asset inventory platform. HD is best known for creating the Metasploit Framework in 2003 and overseeing its development and path to its current model under Rapid7. HD continues to conduct security assessments, build products, and contribute to open source, pushing the status quo through research. His …

Dr. Brian Carrier leads the digital forensics team at Basis Technology, which builds software for incident response, digital forensics, and custom mission needs. He is the author of the book File System Forensic Analysis and developer of several open source digital forensics analysis tools, including The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy. Brian has a Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University and …