Michael Weissbacher

Michael Weissbacher is a Senior Security Engineer at Square where he develops infrastructure software that makes the business operate more securely. His focus is on providing secrets and identity to workloads in the cloud. He has a PhD from Northeastern University where he was working at the Secure Systems Lab. His main area of research was web security, he also worked on fuzzing for algorithmic slowdowns and integrating humans with automated program exploitation. His work was published in venues such as USENIX Security, ACM CCS, NDSS, and others. He has presented work on detecting privacy invasions of browser extensions at the FTC, which has been covered by various news outlets, such as Le Figaro and Heise. .You can follow Michael on Twitter @MWeissbacher

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