Jeff Moss, Conference Chair

Jeff Moss aka The Dark Tangent - Founder of Black Hat and DEFCON, Homeland Security Advisory Council Member.

Jeff Moss has been a hacker for over twenty years. In 1992, Jeff founded DEFCON, the largest hacker community and gathering in the world. Five years later, he started Black Hat, a series of technical conferences featuring the latest security research. In 2009, Jeff was appointed to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, a group of subject matter experts providing advice to the Secretary. Jeff is also a contributing author to "Stealing the Network," a series of books combining stories that are fictional with technology that is real, and executive producer of a documentary film about the history of hacking to be released in late 2010.

Jeff is uniquely qualified with his ability to bridge the gap between the underground researcher community and law enforcement, between the worlds of pure research and responsible application. As such, he is a popular keynote speaker at events for the Air Force and DoD and regularly referenced in the Associated Press, CNN, New York Times, Reuters, and the Wall Street Journal.

Prior to Black Hat, Jeff was a director at Secure Computing Corporation where he helped establish the Professional Services Department in the United States, Asia, and Australia. He has also worked for Ernst & Young, LLP in their Information System Security division. Jeff graduated with a BA in Criminal Justice from Gonzaga University.

Mark Dowd is an expert in application security, specializing primarily in host and server based Operating Systems. His professional experience includes several years as a senior researcher at a fortune 500 company, where he uncovered a variety of major vulnerabilities in ubiquitous Internet software. He also worked as a Principal Security Architect for McAfee, where he was responsible for internal code audits, secure programming classes, and undertaking new security initiatives. Mark has also co-authored a book on the subject of application security named "The Art of Software Security Assessment," and has spoken at several industry-recognized conferences.

Chris Eagle is a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, CA. A computer engineer/scientist for 25+ years, his research interests include computer network operations, computer forensics and reverse/anti-reverse engineering. He has been a speaker at conferences such as Black Hat, Defcon, CodeCon, and Shmoocon and is the author of "The IDA Pro Book", the definitive guide to IDA Pro. In his spare time he is the Dean of Hacking for the Sk3wl of r00t, past champions of the Defcon Capture the Flag Competition.

Christofer Hoff has over 19 years of experience in high-profile global roles in network and information security architecture, engineering, operations, product management and marketing with a passion for virtualization and all things Cloud.

Hoff is currently Director of Cloud and Virtualization Solutions of the Security Technology Business Unit at Cisco Systems. Prior to Cisco,he was Unisys Corporation's Systems & Technology Division's Chief Security Architect. Additionally, he served as Crossbeam Systems'' Chief Security Strategist, was the Chief Information Security Officer for a $25 billion financial services company, and was founder/Chief Technology Officer of a national security consultancy. Hoff regularly speaks at high profile conferences, interviewed regularly by the media, is a featured guest on numerous podcasts and blogs at www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog

Felix 'FX' Lindner runs Recurity Labs. FX has over 10 years experience in the computer industry, eight of them in consulting for large enterprise and telecommunication customers. He possesses a vast knowledge of computer sciences, telecommunications and software development. His background includes managing and participating in a variety of projects with a special emphasis on security planning, implementation, operation and testing using advanced methods in diverse technical environments. FX is well known in the computer security community and has presented his and Phenoelit's security research on Black Hat Briefings, CanSecWest, PacSec, DEFCON, Chaos Communication Congress, MEITSEC and numerous other events. His research topics included Cisco IOS, HP printers, SAP and RIM BlackBerry. Felix holds a title as State-Certified Technical Assistant for Informatics and Information Technology as well as Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Shawn Moyer manages the Research Consulting Practice for Accuvant Labs, working with some of the most-renowned security researchers in the world to perform private on-spec vulnerability research, software audits, and reverse engineering for a global customer base ranging from utilities and financials to telecommunications and software firms. Shawn has been involved professionally in information security for over 15 years, and unprofessionally for longer than he'd care to admit. After spending a number of years splitting most of his time between web-centric research and red-team penetration testing, Shawn's most recent work has been focused on Smart Grid and related technologies.

Shawn has written on emerging threats and other topics for Information Security Magazine and ZDNet, and his research has been featured in the Washington Post, BusinessWeek, NPR, and the New York Times. Shawn has been an eight-time speaker at the BlackHat Briefings, and has been an invited speaker at other notable security conferences in the US, China, Canada, and Japan.

Alex Stamos is a co-founder and CTO of iSEC Partners. While helping to build iSEC into an industry leader, Alex has been focused on helping his clients address their most difficult security challenges. He has worked to secure mobile platforms, cloud computing infrastructures and other emerging technologies while pushing forward the industry's understanding of how to build trustworthy systems in these new computing paradigms. He is a frequent speaker at conferences such as BlackHat, FS-ISAC, the Critical Infrastructure Protection Congress, Infragard, CanSecWest and Interop. Before forming iSEC, Alex was a Managing Security Consultant at @stake and had operational security responsibility at Loudcloud. He received a BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.

Robert J. Stratton III is an independent consultant specializing in multinational network security, commercial development of early-stage security technologies, technology policy, and innovation management. Previously, he was Director of Government Research at Symantec Research Labs where he focused on security research, technology transfer and cybersecurity policy. Before joining Symantec, he was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at StackSafe, a startup focused on self-healing software and automated software assurance. Mr. Stratton was the first Director of Technology Assessment at In-Q-Tel, a private venture capital firm investing for the benefit of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Mr. Stratton also co-founded and served as Chief Technologist at Security Design International, a services firm specializing in multinational and critical infrastructure network security. Before founding SDI, Mr. Stratton established the Security Posture Assessment™ practice at WheelGroup Corporation and the security organization at UUNET, one of the first tier 1 Internet service providers.

Alex Wheeler is a distinguished security researcher. Wheeler is an expert in software reverse engineering & code auditing. His skill is evidenced by world-wide industry recognition. Wheeler's public research received consecutive Pwnies awards for both "Best Server Side Bug" and "Best Client Side Bug". His work is often referenced by top tier media outlets. Alex's most notable public discoveries include default remote flaws in Microsoft's IP stack and systemic default remote flaws in every top tier security vendor's server and client security products (e.g., Symantec, McAfee, TrendMicro, Computer Associates, Microsoft, Cisco, F-Secure, Kaspersky, ClamAV, Novell, etc.).

Stefano Zanero received a PhD in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, where he is currently an assistant professor with the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione. His research focuses on intrusion detection, malware analysis, and systems security. Besides teaching "Computer Security" at Politecnico, he has an extensive speaking and training experience in Italy and abroad, at both scientific and technical forums. He co-authored over 30 scientific papers and books. He is an associate editor for the "Journal in computer virology". He's a Senior Member of the IEEE (covering volunteer positions at national and regional level), and of the IEEE Computer Society (for which he is the current chair of the Italy chapter). He's also a member of the ACM. Stefano co-founded the italian chapter of ISSA (Information System Security Association), and sits in the International Board of Directors of the same association.

Stefano in 2004 founded Secure Network, a boutique security consultancy based in Milano, Italy. Secure Network's consultants and alumni are regular speakers at security conferences worldwide.

In a past life, Stefano was a regular columnist for "Computer World Italy", and received a national press award for his "Security Manager's Journal".