Jacob Baines is a Lead Security Researcher at Rapid7 and a member of the Emergent Threat Response team. As part of his daily duties, Jacob conducts n-day and zero-day vulnerability research on important or impactful systems. He particularly enjoys sharing findings with the security community and developing Metasploit exploits. Jacob has been active in the Security field for well over a decade. He’s held positions as a developer, reverse engineer, and vulnerability researcher. As a vulnerability researcher, Jacob has had the good fortune to publish and present his research which varies from embedded system exploitation, web application attacks, and Windows vulnerabilities.