Kevin Sheldrake

Kevin Sheldrake is a penetration tester and researcher who started working in the technical security field in 1997. Over the years, Kev has been a developer and system administrator of ‘secure' systems, an infosec policy consultant, a penetration tester, a reverse engineer and an entrepreneur who founded and ran his own security consulting company. His current interests lies in tool development for better penetration testing, and he has specialised in IoT and crypto for a number of years. He has a Masters degree, is a Chartered Engineer and, in the past, has been a CHECK Team Leader, a CISSP and held CLAS. Kev has presented at 44CON, Troopers, DEFCON 4420, 441452 and 441392 on RFID crypto (Cracking HiTag2 Crypto); EMF Camp, DEFCON 4420 and 441452 on hacking embedded devices (Inside our Toys); presented on building debuggers for embedded devices at Securi-Tay (Phun with Ptrace()); and also presented a lengthy take down on the use of NLP in Social Engineering at DEFCON 4420 (Social Engineering LIES!). He has also presented regularly at his employer's internal security conference, winning best talk in 2014 for ‘Embedded Nonsense', a talk about hacking an IoT device and reversing its crypto, which he subsequently presented at Cyber Security Challenge.

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