Based in San Francisco, Ben Actis is currently a Sr. Security Research Engineer/Grand General of GIFs at Synack and moonlights at night as the owner of Cyber Merchants of Death. He specializes in Mobile & IoT Security, as well as reverse engineering. Prior to Synack, Ben worked a combined 6 years at Lookout and MITRE in various roles with focuses on research & response, mobile reverse engineering and network analytics - most famous for his primary research surrounding shedun/humming bad and xcode ghost. Ben has also taught introductory college courses, such as "intro to x86" and "intro to flow analysis" - both available on opensecuritytraining.info. When not reversing or participating in bug bounty programs, you'll find Ben searching for Pokemon, taking Krav Maga, and trolling on Twitter and Slack channels.