Dan Petro is a Security Associate at Bishop Fox, a security consulting firm providing services to the Fortune 500, global financial institutions, and high-tech startups. In this role, he focuses on application and network penetration testing. He has presented at numerous conferences, including Black Hat USA, DEF CON, HOPE, BSides, and ToorCon. He has also been a featured guest speaker at Arizona State University, South Mountain Community College, and the Dark Reading University series. Dan has been quoted in various industry and mainstream publications such as Business Insider, Wired, The Guardian, and Mashable among others. He is widely known for the tools he has created: the Chromecast-hacking device, the RickMote ContRoller, and Untwister, a tool used for breaking pseudorandom number generators. He also organizes Root the Box, a capture the flag security competition. Additionally, Dan often appears on local and national news to discuss topical security issues. Dan holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University and doesn't regret it.
