Andy Applebaum is a Lead Cyber Security Engineer at MITRE where he works on applied and theoretical security research problems, primarily in the realms of cyber defense, security automation, and automated adversary emulation. Andy has contributed to MITRE’s ATT&CK framework and CALDERA adversary emulation platform, as well as other projects within MITRE’s internal research and development portfolio. Prior to working at MITRE, Andy received his PhD in computer science from the University of California Davis, where his dissertation topic was using argumentation logic for reasoning in cyber security. Andy’s work has been published in multiple conferences and workshops and has most recently spoken at Black Hat Europe. In addition to his PhD, Andy holds a BA in computer science from Grinnell College and the OSCP certification.