Erick Galinkin is a hacker and computer scientist working as principal researcher in Rapid7's Office of the CTO. Presently, Erick leads R&D supporting Rapid7's Managed Detection and Response service. An alumnus of Johns Hopkins University, he has published a number of academic papers and given talks on security decision theory and artificial intelligence applications for security at conferences from AAAI and GameSec to DEF CON's AI Village. He has spent his entire life in different parts of information security, ranging from threat intelligence and malware analysis to cloud security and security architecture.