FuzzCon brings together software security experts and industry leaders from various sectors to share the benefits of fuzzing, a proven and accepted security testing technique. Through education, community building, and networking, FuzzCon aims to make this advanced technique accessible and help organizations realize the value of this emerging trend in continuous software testing.
ForAllSecure CEO David Brumley received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. With over 20 years of cybersecurity experience in academia and practice, Brumley is the author of over 50 publications in computer security and has received numerous awards, including the US PECASE award from President Obama. In 2012, Brumley co-founded ForAllSecure with the mission to secure the world's critical software. In 2016, ForAllSecure went on to win the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge with Mayhem, ForAllSecure’s next-generation fuzzing solution.
Chris Clark holds a Masters in Cyber Security from the University of Maryland and is a 28-year veteran of the IT world. Clark participates in numerous standards bodies including IEEE, ISO, SAE, and ISA to ensure effective security requirements are included in the development of future standards. Clark is currently focusing on educating customers on how to minimize their cybersecurity risks.
Dr. Jared DeMott is the founder & CEO of VDA Labs, a full-scope cyber security company. DeMott previously served as a vulnerability analyst with the NSA and holds a PhD from Michigan State University. Dr. DeMott has been an invited lecturer at prestigious institutions such as the US Military Academy and is often interviewed by the media to weigh in on cyber matters.
Richard Johnson is a computer security specialist with a focus on software vulnerability analysis. Currently Principal at Fuzzing IO, a research and development company offering professional training and consulting services, Richard offers over 18 years of professional expertise and leadership in the information security industry including past positions as Director of Security Research at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Research Lead roles at Cisco Talos and Microsoft.
Terry is a highly diversified and resourceful leader with over 20 years of experience in information technology, information security, and program leadership. He is currently serving as Founder and CEO of PhishCloud Inc. Terry has served in a broad range of roles in his career including technical roles in cybersecurity and security analytics, as well as director-level positions in product management, sales, and partnerships. He previously served as the CTO and co-founder of Spearpoint Security, which was acquired by Cylance in 2013. Some of his favorite times were spent as a red team lead in the Air Force and finding bugs in software and devices with Billy Rios.
Max is an information security engineer at Google. He works on Chrome Security and OSS-Fuzz projects, focusing on fuzzing and exploring other areas of vulnerability research. Max holds a M.S. from eng.mephi.ru and was an avid CTF player in the past.
Everest Munro-Zeisberger is the CTO and co-founder of Fuzzbuzz, a startup that builds fuzzing tools and infrastructure to help developers effortlessly find severe bugs and vulnerabilities in their code. Prior to starting Fuzzbuzz, he built tooling on Google's Clusterfuzz team, one of the largest fuzzing operations in the world, before going on to build a distributed fuzzing framework at Coinbase.
Alex Rebert is a computer security researcher and co-founder of ForAllSecure, whose mission is to test the world's software and train future leaders in computer security. He received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from EPFL in 2011, and a Master from Carnegie Mellon University in 2015. He is the co-author of Mayhem, the first end-to-end system to automatically generate exploits on binaries. Mayhem found thousands of bugs and more than hundreds of exploits on real-world software. At ForAllSecure, he was leading the team working on the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC). In 2016, the automated system he helped create won CGC. He was named to MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 and Forbes 30 Under 30.
Seth is editor-in-chief and founder of The Parallax. He has worked in online journalism since 1999, including eight years at CNET News, where he led coverage of security, privacy, and Google. Based in San Francisco, he also writes about connected technology and pop culture.
Raphael is a cybersecurity correspondent at Reuters. An investigative reporter, Raphael covers cybersecurity, tech policy and privacy. Satter is a former cybersecurity correspondent at The Associated Press in London. He studied political science at the University of Chicago.
Konstantin (Kostya) Serebryany is a Software Engineer at Google. His team develops and deploys dynamic testing tools, such as AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, ThreadSanitizer, and libFuzzer. Prior to joining Google in 2007, Konstantin spent four years at Elbrus/MCST working for Sun Compiler Lab and three years at Intel Compiler Lab. Konstantin holds a PhD from Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics and a M.S. from Moscow State University.
Mike Walker is a Senior Director at MSR NExT, where he leads a security ventures team that operates Microsoft's fuzzing service and virtual machine introspection projects. Prior to joining Microsoft, Walker led DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge, a two-year $58M contest to construct and challenge the first prototypes of reasoning cyberdefense systems. Walker has also worked in a policy advisory role, testifying to the President’s Commission on Cybersecurity.
