Joshua J. Drake, a senior research consultant with Accuvant LABS, focuses on original research in areas such as vulnerability discovery and analysis, exploitation technologies, and reverse engineering. Joshua has over 10 years of experience in the information security field. Prior to joining Accuvant, Joshua served as the lead exploit developer for the Metasploit team at Rapid7. In that role, he analyzed and successfully exploited numerous publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in widely deployed software such as Exim, Samba, Microsoft Windows, Office, and Internet Explorer. Prior to that, Joshua spent four years at VeriSign’s iDefense Labs conducting research, analysis, and coordinated disclosure of hundreds of unpublished vulnerabilities.