Devon Kerr Email & Phone Number

Middlesex, Ny, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Established the organization and independent vision of the Elastic Security Labs team, an applied research function within Elastic Security. Supervisory duties include budgeting, hiring, professional and organizational development, roadmap planning and ownership, and coordination globally with Product, Infrastructure, Legal, Sales, Marketing, Communications/PR, and Engineering teams.Provides research stewardship and editorial support for Elastic Security. Develops and publishes competitive and compelling research work-products in multiple domains including malware and intelligence analysis, reverse-engineering, vulnerability research, machine learning and data science, detection engineering, and security operations. Elastic Security Labs work-products substantially influence go-to-market outcomes.Supports research collaboration with public and private sector partners not limited to information sharing. Operates Elastic Security Labs web and social properties, as well as real-time spaces for community engagement.

Arlington, Va, Us

Threat research includes a variety of tasks such as: - understanding adversarial tradecraft to develop detection, prevention and response capabilities- supporting rapid prototyping of features, offensive simulation and QA of analytics- coordinating information sharing with third parties- collaborating with internal Endgame specialists in malware research and data science- developing a variety of technical materials for publication which may include blogs, books or whitepapersThe Director of Response also collaborates with academic institutions on research projects, develop internal and external training, serve as liaisons to partners and other organizations with a similar mission; support the professional development of researchers and provide thought leadership. This role also influences platform feature initiatives such as incident management and reporting, analyst workflow and guided response.Along with Paul Ewing of Endgame and Roberto Rodriguez of SpecterOps, Mr. Kerr developed a threat hunting workshop focused on providing practitioners and company leadership with the raw materials necessary to build community around proactive threat detection. Most recently, Mr. Kerr co-presented a fully quantifiable method for assessing detection-oriented security capabilities with Roberto Rodriguez of SpecterOps at SANS THIR.

Mountain View, California, Us

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include:Leading security incident response investigations that involve computer crimes and require log, forensic and malware analysis.Supporting litigation support efforts by acquiring, minimizing, searching and producing electronic evidence for legal counsel as well as serving as an expert witness as needed.Developing short- and long-term recovery plans as a result of targeted intrusions which enhance client abilities to prevent, detect and respond to threats.Developing curriculum and conduct training courses in incident response.Serving as subject matter expert in forensics, incident response and remediation.Provide project management expertise for engagements.Supervising and guiding the professional development of consultants as assigned.Providing technical review of engagement deliverables.ThreatSpace technical architect and redteam member, focusing on adversary simulation.General Skills:Interfacing with clients (internal and external).Documenting and explaining technical details in a concise, understandable manner.Providing training and performing public speaking and being comfortable in front of an audience.Managing own and team project tasks.Technical Skills:Expert knowledge of Mandiant tools including the MIR platform, RedLine, and IOC Editor.Expert knowledge of enterprise incident response technologies and methods.Strong knowledge of tools used for application testing and network security.Perl, python, and shell scripting to automate common tasks.Thorough understanding of network and security protocols.Mastery of Unix and Windows operating systems.Forensics analysis of Windows and UNIX platforms.Some static and dynamic malware analysis.Comprehensive understanding of complex computer networks.In addition to official duties, providing review and technical assessment of FireEye threat research blog posts.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Applied Arts And Science

Aa, Humanities