BSidesPhilly 4 Speakers
Matt Bosack
Matt is a Philly native who loves security. He has engineering degrees from Temple, and worked in a security research lab at the Navy Yard before joining the Comcast Cyber Security a few years back. At Comcast, Matt works on the bug bounty team, interfacing the security crowd with internal product teams on potential issues. Outside of that, Matt loves coaching his FIRST robotics students, eating cheesesteaks, and exploring his favorite city on the planet.
Madeline Bright
As a student at Drexel University studying computer science and security, Maddie Bright continues to explore her passions in new ways with every opportunity she can find. Since working for Rooted in Rights in high school to representing Pennsylvania youth at the National Council on Independent Living, Maddie has advocated for herself and others with disabilities with a passion. After beginning her studies at Drexel, and joining the CyberDragons and the Drexel Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team, Maddie discovered her interests in cybsersecurity, blue-team operations, and systems administration, which have been deepened by her co-op at the University of Pennsylvania as a junior systems administrator. She plans to continue to explore these areas of interest through her subsequent co-op opportunities as she moves into her pre-Junior year in Fall 2020 while continuing to learn and explore the relationship between cybersecurity, advocacy, and disability.
Raymond Canzanese
Ray is the Director of Netskope Threat Labs, which specializes in cloud-focused threat research. His background is in software anti-tamper, malware detection and classification, cloud security, sequential detection, and machine learning. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University. Most recently, Ray was the CTO of cloud security startup Sift Security.
Apurv Singh Gautam
Apurv Singh Gautam is pursuing his Master's in Cybersecurity from Georgia Tech. He commenced work in Threat Intel/Hunting 2 years ago. Throughout his professional career, he worked on hunting threats from both clear web and dark web and is also involved in performing HUMINT on the d2web. He is very passionate about giving back to the community and has already conducted several talks and seminars in local security meetups, schools, and colleges. He loves volunteering with Cybrary and Station X to help students make their way in Cybersecurity. He looks forward to the end of the day to play and stream one of the AAA games Rainbow Six Siege.
Christopher Lopez
Investigations are a passion of mine and I want to share information that could help anyone that either wants to get start in infosec or wants to become a better investigator. I am a SOC analyst and care about the value that an analyst is able to reflect through their analysis and writeup. I started in the field around 4 years ago and spend a lot of my time improving investigative methods.
Jonathan Magen
Jonathan E. Magen is a computer scientist working in the healthcare sector after spending five years in startups. He lives in the Philadelphia area but has lived all over the country. In addition to being passionate about Free/Open Source Software, Jonathan believes strongly in the transformative power of technology and in using that technology as a catalyst for social change. His areas of inquiry include distributed systems, OS kernel/large system design, security, and some light programming language theory.
Chris Maenner
Music lover, security developer, and advocate for protecting yourself in the age of data. If there are any improvements you would like to recommend, please hit me up so we can improve the BSidesPhilly community.
Etizaz Mohsin
Etizaz Mohsin is an information security researcher and enthusiast. His core interest lies in low level software exploitation both in user and kernel mode, vulnerability research, reverse engineering. He holds a Bachelors in Software Engineering and started his career in Penetration Testing. He is an active speaker at international security conferences. He has achieved industry certifications, the prominent of which are OSCP, OSCE, OSWP, OSWE, OSEE, CREST CRT, CPSA, EWPTX, CEH.
Sasi Siddharth Muthurajan
Sasi Siddharth is an AppSec junkie who has played a key role in developing web application scanning techniques and DNS-based malware analysis. Sasi has contributed to yearly risk reports and worked on innovative techniques for detecting modern day software vulnerabilities. Currently, he enjoys securing enterprise applications while tweaking processes that make it easy to do so. He holds a Master's degree in Information Security from Georgia Tech and spends his weekends exploring the charm of New England.
Chris Myers
As Co-Founder at Snap Labs, Chris provides instant cyber labs which serve as environments for developing new network penetration testing techniques and as training grounds for cybersecurity professionals. These labs focus on maintaining the most realistic posture possible to accurately mirror corporate networks. Chris uses his experience in the industry to ensure labs have common configurations, simulated active users and expand the range of attack vectors of traditional lab environments.
Hardik Parekh
Hardik Parekh is recognized thought leader and executive in security/privacy domain with hands-on contributions to SANS CWE Top 25, OWASP SAMM, BSIMM 1.0 to BSIMM 9; and SAFECode. Hardik is part of the core team which developed OWASP SAMM 2.0.
Hardik has 16+ years of hands-on security experience with a track record of developing and maturing security programs in consumer and enterprise companies RSA/EMC, Intuit, Amazon, and Splunk. Hardik has built security programs in dynamic, fast-paced environments while partnering effectively across the company. Hardik has transformed DevOps organization to DevSecOps by integrating security engineering tools in CICD pipeline and delivered security at scale and speed in the Cloud.
Hardik also serves on several advisory boards including non-profit Security and IT Certification leader CompTIA.
Shail Patel
I am a security enthusiast, researcher, and an engineer by profession having been involved in the info-sec community since 2+ years now. I hold a master's degree in cybersecurity from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and two industry certifications (AccessData Certified Examiner, CompTIA Security +). I have worked on numerous security concepts and frameworks, though my research interests include red teaming, malware analysis, digital forensics and automation.
Paul F. Renda
Paul F. Renda has over 30 years in information security. He has spoken at a number of above ground and below ground hacker conferences. He studied physics and math at Queens College and the University of Houston, and he has worked as a system administrator for IBM Z/OS and Linux systems.
Kelley Robinson
Kelley works on the Account Security team at Twilio. Previously she worked in a variety of API platform and data engineering roles at startups. Her research focuses on authentication user experience and design trade-offs for different risk profiles and 2FA channels. Kelley lives in Brooklyn, is an avid home cook, and spends too much time on Twitter (@kelleyrobinson).
Peter Scheffler
Peter has over 25 years of experience in the software industry with nearly another 10 years before that as an amateur programmer. Peter has spent the last 15 years in the world of web application development and application security. As an independent consultant, Peter spent time developing solutions for securing network and application access for Fortune 1000 and security conscious government organizations. Peter currently works with F5 Networks as a Cyber Security Solutions Architect where he is helping protect today’s economy from cyber attacks.
Kyle Sheely
Kyle Sheely is a senior consultant in the Security Operations Center of Security Risk Advisors (SRA). During his time as a consultant, Kyle has led incident handling and continuous security monitoring engagements for several Fortune and Global 1000 companies, primarily in the healthcare, pharma, and manufacturing industries. He co-created SRA's Threat Intelligence Gathering and Response (TIGR) Team, which provides intel digests and threat advisory bulletins for SRA's clients. Kyle is a member of the Blue Team Village and spoke at DEFCON 28 in August. When not threat hunting, Kyle enjoys bouldering and D&D.
Ruben Ventura
Ruben Ventura [tr3w] got involved in the field of hacking and info-sec for around 17 years. He has worked performing pen-tests and security assessments for many international firms, governments and law-enforcement agencies from all around the world (also a bank). He has been presented as a speaker and trainer at many different conferences in his country of origin.
His interests include hacking, reverse engineering, meditation, music production, theoretical physics, psychology, lifting weights and coffee (lots).
Cassandra Young
Cassandra is a security-focused Systems Administrator by day, Computer Science grad student and Blue Team Village Organizer by night. She works primarily with native Azure AD and O365 security tools and logging, but focuses academically on serverless microservices and cloud security. As a firm believer in taking chances, she's always jumping down rabbit holes and going on adventures. She loves international travel, scuba diving, travel photography, and Star Trek