Locknote: Conclusions and Key Takeaways from Day 1

Presented at Black Hat USA 2020 Virtual, Aug. 5, 2020, 3:30 p.m. (30 minutes).

<p>At the end of day one of this year's virtual conference, join Black Hat Review Board members Chris Eng, Daniel Cuthbert, Marina Krotofil, and Natalie Silvanovich for an insightful conversation on the most pressing issues facing the InfoSec community. This Locknote will feature a candid discussion on the key takeaways from day one and how these trends will impact future InfoSec strategies.</p>

Presenters:

  • Chris Eng - Chief Research Officer, Veracode
    Chris Eng is Chief Research Officer at Veracode. A founding member of the Veracode team, he is responsible for all research initiatives including applied research and product security. In addition to research, he consults with customers to advance their application security initiatives. Chris is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and he serves on program committees for Black Hat USA and the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit. Bloomberg, Fox Business, CBS, and other prominent media outlets have featured Chris in their coverage. Previously, Chris was Technical Director at Symantec (formerly @stake) and an Engineer at the National Security Agency.
  • Marina Krotofil - Cyber Security Lead, ABB
    <p>Marina Krotofil is a security researcher with a decade of experiences in advanced methods for securing Industrial Control Systems (ICS). She specializes in the discovery of new attack vectors and exploitation techniques, incident response, forensic investigations, ICS malware analysis and design of novel defense methods. Previously, Marina worked as a Senior Security Engineer at BASF (Germany), Principal Analyst and Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the Cyber-Physical Security Group at FireEye (USA), Lead Cyber Security Researcher at Honeywell (USA) and a Senior Security Consultant at the European Network for Cyber Security (Netherlands). She authored more than 25 academic articles and book chapters on ICS Security and is a regular speaker at the leading conference stages worldwide. Marina holds MBA in Technology Management, MSc in Telecommunications and MSc in Information and Communication Systems.</p>
  • Natalie Silvanovich - Security Researcher, Google Project Zero
    <p>Natalie Silvanovich is a security researcher on Google Project Zero. Her current focus is on script engines, particularly understanding the subtleties of the scripting languages they implement and how they lead to vulnerabilities. She is a prolific finder of vulnerabilities in this area, reporting over a hundred vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash in the last year. Previously, she worked in mobile security on the Android Security Team at Google and as a team lead of the Security Research Group at BlackBerry, where her work included finding security issues in mobile software and improving the security of mobile platforms. Outside of work, Natalie enjoys applying her hacking and reverse engineering skills to unusual targets and has spoken at several conferences on the subject of Tamagotchi hacking.</p>
  • Daniel Cuthbert - Global Head of Security Research, Banco Santander
    <p>Daniel Cuthbert is the Global Head of Security Research for Banco Santander. With a career spanning over 20 years on both the offensive and defensive side, he's seen the evolution of hacking from a small group of curious minds to organized criminal networks and nation state we see today. He is the original co-author of the OWASP Testing Guide, released in 2003 and now the co-author of the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS).</p>

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