Riley Hassell is a recognized industry expert in the fields of application security assessment, software reverse engineering and malware analysis. Mr. Hassell was responsible for the discovery of the first critical remote vulnerabilities in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. He also discovered the vulnerability that triggered the Code Red Internet worm. His initial dissection of the worm was used to develop and put in place protective measures to safeguard the network targeted by Code Red, the Whitehouse public network. Mr. Hassell routinely assesses security software and has discovered critical vulnerabilities in leading security products over the years, pushing on security vendors to do better. He has spent much of his career as a security engineer and researcher, often working with startup ventures to pioneer product technologies in the patch management, intrusion prevention, vulnerability analysis and malware analysis fields. Currently, Mr. Hassell is as Principal Security Researcher on ServiceNow's Security Research team, performing offensive security research and analysis of threats to ServiceNow's platform and customers.