We will also reveal what changes we've made over the past year to do things better and the tools we use to make sense of it all. We understand that the Black Hat network has a unique set of challenges associated with it and those challenges can be interesting to our attendees. Of course, some of our challenges are not so unique, namely, maintaining openness, while trying to provide a measure of security.
Neil R. Wyler (a.k.a. Grifter) is the Global Lead of Active Threat Assessments for IBM X-Force. He has spent over 20 years as a security professional, focusing on vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, physical security, and incident response. He has been a staff member of the Black Hat Security Briefings for over 19 years and a member of the Senior Staff at DEF CON for over 20 years. View Full Bio Here
Bart Stump
Senior Security Consultant
OPTIV
Bart Stump is an senior security consultant working for Optiv out of Salt Lake City, Utah. He has been working in the network and security fields for over 14 years. He has worked in multiple capacities from running and designing network and security environments, consulting, training, technical sales and technical support. He has been a Black Hat staff member for 12 years and also a goon at DEF CON for over 10 years. View Full Bio Here
Joel Fulton
CEO and Founder
Lucidum
Joel Fulton is the co-founder of Lucidum. He is also the co-founder of Silicon Valley CISO Investments, a leading group of Chief Information Security Officers that operate as an angel investor syndicate.
Previously the Chief Information Security Officer for Splunk, Dr. Fulton has also led security and risk teams at Symantec, Google, Starbucks, Boeing, several financial institutions, and led a security and regulatory compliance consulting firm for ten years. View Full Bio Here