Brian Wallace Brian Wallace is a security researcher at Cylance with experience in software engineering, reverse engineering, malware analysis, vulnerability research, machine learning, and more. As the primary researcher responsible for exposing the threat actor behind Operation Cleaver, he also has experience as a threat actor investigator. Brian additionally works on non-traditional methods to dissuade threat actors from their targets. He regularly builds tools to solve problems and automate solutions, which are commonly published as open source tools. One of these tools, bamfdetect, statically identifies botnet malware samples, and attempts to extract their configuration details from them, allowing for quick and clean identification of command and control servers.