Bring the work.
Open the discussion.

Andrew Case is the Director of Research at Volexity, and has significant experience in incident response handling and malware analysis. He has conducted numerous large-scale investigations that span enterprises and industries. Case is a core developer of the Volatility memory analysis framework, and a co-author of the highly popular and technical forensics analysis book “The Art of Memory Forensics: Detecting Malware and Threats in Windows, Linux, and Mac Memory.” He has presented at major industry conferences, including Black Hat, DEF CON, RSA, SecTor, DFRWS, BSidesLV, BSidesNYC, and OMFW.

Maria Markstedter is the founder of the security training company Azeria Labs. She has spent her career focused on all things Arm, from reverse engineering to exploit development, sharing her passion for the architecture by teaching thousands of people around the world through her highly specialized courses. She is the author of the book Blue Fox: Arm Assembly Internals & Reverse Engineering (Wiley, 2023).

Maria has delivered keynote speeches at various conferences, including the Arm Research Summit and Black Hat USA 2023. Her work has earned her recognition as a Forbes "30 Under 30" honoree (2018) and Forbes Person of the Year in Cybersecurity (2020). Beyond her technical research, she serves on the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee for the fashion-conglomerate Inditex, and is an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS. You can find her on X at @fox0x01.

Adam Russell is a security engineering leader at Anthropic, where he works on securing frontier AI systems. Adam has spent more than 20 years in technology and cybersecurity, with leadership roles across the private sector and public service, including Oracle, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and the Department of the Navy. During nearly 13 years at Oracle, he spearheaded the Ethical Hacking Team, built security into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and most recently served as SaaS CISO, leading security for the company’s SaaS portfolio. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Portland, where he later returned to teach as adjunct faculty.

Visi Stark is a hacker and founder with more than 25 years of experience in the cyber security industry. In 2016 he co-founded The Vertex Project to build Synapse, a central intelligence system which enables analytical teams to provide intelligence-driven insights to decision makers.

Previously, Visi was a Technical Director at Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud) where he led the team which proposed and authored the famous APT1 report detailing Chinese PLA hacking and economic espionage efforts against the US. He also led the team responsible for developing the intelligence analysis platform that they still use today.

Prior to joining Mandiant, Visi spent nearly 10 years in research, development, and operations of offensive cyber capabilities for the US Intelligence Community.

Visi has a long history of contribution within the hacking and open-source community. His efforts include the open-source release of Synapse, the code analysis tool Vivisect, and the invention of IMPHASH. Visi was also awarded a patent on a novel technique for using symbolic code analysis to determine shared code across architectures.

After winning DEFCON CTF in 2002, Visi founded Kenshoto which organized and implemented DEFCON CTF contents from 2005-2008.