Sumit "sid" Siddharth has been a Speaker/Trainer at many security conferences including Black Hat, DEF CON, Troopers, OWASP Appsec, Sec-T etc.
He is currently a senior reverse/exploit engineer for Crucial Security Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Harris Corporation working in the San Antonio based Air Force 90th Information Operations Squadron. In this position, he develops defensive tools to protect the Air Force's internal networks and researches novel techniques to solve practical cyber security problems. Included are autonomous network traffic analysis, malware analysis, security testing and forensics. Prior to working at Crucial, he spent 5 years at SRA International and 5 years at General Dynamics developing various defense related software, researching data hiding techniques, and analyzing malware.
Ty Miller is from Sydney Area, Australia who created and developed "The Shellcode Lab" which is a training course run at Black Hat USA and Hack In The Box Malaysia.
Joe Stewart is the Director of Malware Research at SecureWorks who is known for developing OllyDbg Plugins and Scripts like Analyze This! (Force analysis of non-code sections), AttachAnyway (Anti-anti-attach PoC), Labelmaster (Batch processing of labels/comments), OllyBonE (unpacking plugin for OllyDbg), OllyGraph (code flowchart plugin), OllyPerl (Perl scripting for OllyDbg), OllyVBHelper (aids in reverse-engineering Visual Basic apps), and WaveDiff (binary difference analysis for OllyDbg (uses OllyPerl).
Phil Agcaoili currently works as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Cox Communications Inc. He has represented GE, VeriSign, Alcatel, Scientific-Atlanta, Cisco, Dell and Cox in their Corporate Security, Privacy, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Councils. Phil is the co-founder of the Southern CISO Security Council and Southern Risk Council, participates in the Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Citibank CISO Councils, and served on Advisory Boards for Information Security Magazine, CISO Executive Network, Executive Council, Evanta CISO Leadership Network, RSA ESAF, SecureWorld, and Wisegate. He won the inaugural 2012 Information Security Executive of the Decade Award, 2012 RSA Conference Award for Excellence in the Field of Security Practices, 2010 Information Security Magazine Security 7 Award, 2009 Information Security Executive of the Year Award, and a Microsoft MVP Award.
Elias Bachaalany is a known developer and reverse engineer who is currently working at Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, Elias worked as a programmer at Hex-Rays.
Thomas Richards is an Information Technology professional / analyst and an independent vulnerability researcher. He has published vulnerabilities on the web and that some his researches were assigned with CVE-ID's.
Rodrigo Montoro is a certified LPI, RHCE, SnortCP from Brazil. At Trustwave, Rodrigo works in the SpiderLabs Research division where he focuses on IDS/IPS Signatures, Modsecurity rules, and new detection research ( PDFScore , HTTP Header Research and new scoring idea for binary malwares). He is currently a coordinator and a Snort evangelist for the Brazilian Snort Community and OWASP Brazilian chapter member. He has spoken at a number of open source and security conferences like OWASP AppSec, Toorcon (USA), H2HC (São Paulo and Mexico), SecTor (Canada) , and CNASI.
Petko D. Petkov is the founder and leading member of the GNUCITIZEN Information Security Think Tank. He is an information security researcher, security tools developer, penetration tester, frequent speaker at industry recognized events like BlackHat, and a published author who has contributed to several best-selling books, numerous popular blogs and online magazines. He is also the founder of Websecurify where he is involved in the development of an automatic and manual penetration testing tools and solutions. Websecurify is the first and only testing platform in the world which can run virtually on any computing device including Google Android, Apple iOS, all current browsers, as a server and compiled in various languages including Java, Objective-C, C and others.
Ken Olsen was born on February 20, 1926 at Stratford, Connecticut. In his youth, Ken Olsen worked summers in a machine shop and fixed radios in his basement. After serving in the Navy between 1944 and 1946, he attended MIT and then worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he developed the Memory Test Computer and designed some of the hardware on the TX-0 and TX-2 machines, early transistor-based large-scale mainframe computers.