Stephen Lawler Research Fellow at Senrio Inc and is Founder and President of a small computer software and security consulting firm. Mr. Lawler has been actively working in information security for over 7 years, primarily in reverse engineering, malware analysis, and exploit development. While working at Mandiant he was a principal malware analyst for high-profile computer intrusions affecting several Fortune 100 companies. Prior to this, as a founding member of the Security and Mission Assurance (SMA) division (of a major U.S. Defense contractor) he discovered numerous "0-day" vulnerabilities in COTS software and pioneered several exploitation techniques that have only been recently published. Prior to this work, Stephen Lawler was the lead developer for the AWESIM sonar simulator as part of the US Navy SMMTT program. Stephen is also the technical editor of "Practical Malware Analysis" and several other texts published by No Starch Press
Stephen A. Ridley is a principal researcher at Xipiter and chief architect at Senrio Inc (http://senr.io) . He has more than 10 years of experience in software development, software security, and reverse engineering. Prior to Xipiter, Mr. Ridley served as the Chief Information Security Officer of a financial services firm and prior to that was a Senior Researcher at Matasano. He also was Senior Security Architect at McAfee, and a founding member of the Security and Mission Assurance (SMA) group at a major U.S defense contractor where he did vulnerability research and reverse engineering in support of the U.S. intelligence community. He has spoken about reverse engineering and software security at Black Hat, ReCon, CanSecWest, EuSecWest, Syscan and other prominent information security conferences. Stephen is a co-author of "The Android Hacker's Handbook" published by Wiley & Sons.
