Amit S. Email & Phone Number

Remote, Us

I am back to being an individual contributor and I have the privilege of working with a bunch of extremely talented people on solving complex security issues around the world of Linux (low and high level) and cloud computing. In my role I am conducting, leading, and directing research projects and helping to set up Crowdstrike's Cloud and Linux security research strategy

Tel Aviv, Israel, Il

* Lead a research team focusing on hardware and software reverse engineering in the embedded Linux environment* Researched, discovered, and disclosed 5 high severity (CVSS score of 8 and up) vulnerabilities over the span of 6 months* Conducted cutting edge software and hardware reverse engineering security research projects* Spoke in multiple industry leading conferences* Provided product leadership and guidance in the realm of embedded Linux

Tel Aviv, Israel, Il

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Il

** Guardicore is now a part of Akamai technologies, my role continues at Akamai under a different title.Conducting cutting edge research at Guardicore labs

San Diego, California, Us

* Setting product strategy with regards to security research and security value* Advising senior management and helping to determine the company's strategy with regards to security research and security value* Conducting cutting edge security research and working with our product, research, and global security practice teams to make sure that our product stays ahead of the curve and challenges of the security world and provides the best security value possible for our customers.* Investigating, leading, and consulting in various incident response engagements* Leading various security research projects in Nocturnus, Cybereason's elite security practice group.

San Diego, California, Us

Nocturnus is Cybereason's elite global security practice providing IR, malware analysis, monitoring, and other security research-related services to our customers. In my role as a founding member of the group, I am responsible for leading all of the security research related projects, including (but not limited to) advanced malware analysis and reverse engineering of malicious code, leading complex analysis cases with our global team (Tel Aviv, Boston, Japan, and more), recruiting, training, and hiring analysts and researchers and fortifying our products and offerings to withstand, detect, and block today's and tomorrow's malicious operations against our customers.

San Diego, California, Us

Heading Cybereason's security research efforts in our Boston HQ. In my role as Principal security researcher, I'm reporting directly to our CTO and working with him on solving our security research related challenges.Among my responsibilities: Low level research (including kernel/usermode research), Reverse engineering of both threats and dark and hidden corners of most popular operating systems (Windows, Linux and Mac) thus finding new ways for data collection on these OS's, writing malware and simulating attacks to further improve our product, conducting and publishing groundbreaking research, recruiting and training researchers and working along side Cybereason's SOC to help our clients face today's security challanges.Achivements:* Several published research papers (and many media mentions) about different kind of malware analysis (static and dynamic), binary exploitation on various architechtures, and IoT exploitation* Talked about most of my research papers in various security conferences around the US and the world* Found a way two stop two nation-state sponsored ransomware attacks (NotPetya and BadRabbit).

San Diego, California, Us

Leading Cybereason's security research on Apple's Mac OS X and Linux platforms. Mapping OSX/Linux attack vectors, writing OSX/Linux attack POCs, conducting low level OSX/Linux research, conducting OSX/Linux malware analysis and finding ways to gather low level OS metrics from usermode without implementing a driver or any kernel mode code.Achievements: Major contributor to Cybereason's macOS offering as well as being on the initial core resarch and development (two-people) team that released our first version for the Cybereason SilentSensor for the mac, wrote and implemented several tools and algorithms that were incorporated into our product. Published a major mac-malware centred publication which revealed the faces of the people behind the OSX/Pirrit malware.

San Diego, California, Us

Responsible for finding creative ways to gather low level OS metrics and information while running from userland (without drivers or kernel mode code) in Windows, OSX and Linux, Researching malware and hacking techniques while working alongside with our software engineers to turn the research team's findings into detection capabilities in our product.Achievements: Major contributor to many detection features in the product, mainly around Windows security, conducted many security research projects and PoCs in both Linux and OS X which were later built in to Cybereason's offerings for these platforms​. Core contributor to major deal closure, including to our most major one with Softbank which ended up investing in our company, Published a research paper on the HackingTeam attack and spoke publicly about it in several conferences, our HackingTeam research had achieved major coverage worldwide.

Strongsville, Oh, Us

Jerusalem, Il

Leading the department's security research effort - Conducting POCs (firmware RE, Software RE, exploit development), designing architectures and training new developers/researchers.

Jerusalem, Il

Leading dozens of security research projects from initial research level, exploit development to a working product.* Received a commendation from the director of the organization about a project I was involved in.

Jerusalem, Il

Satellite communication project architect:Led a very high-budget project from the block diagram level to a full implementation. Managed developers, conducted PoCs and reverse engineering, developed a unique one-of-a-kind product.* Designing the system itself from the ground-up (servers, clients, custom built routers, Linux kernel modules, etc)* Designing and supervising the process of building an EarthStation* Engineering and Reverse-engineering protocols related to the project.* Received a commendation from the head of the communications wing on the system and its groundbreaking performance.

R&D of miscellaneous Linux internals related projects

Evilcheese was my first project at the age of 15.Founded and managed solely by myself, It consisted of 3 webservers running Windows 2000, FreeBSD and Debian Linux. Evilcheese provided the cheapest webhosting packages in Israel back at the time.

Political Science And International Relations (Incomplete)

Certified Security Engineer