Harvard University

George Mason University

Security Research and Engineering

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Hellasec

Founder and CEO

DARPA: Building upon my Bouncer project from Harvard, I led the development of Beer Garden for DARPA's Cyber Fast Track program. Beer Garden is a proof-of-concept technology for reversing the asymmetry of “high-density” attacks. DARPA invited me to present Beer Garden in the Pentagon’s center courtyard.

RiskIQ: Led the architecture and development of a data-analysis framework for a large corpus of mobile apps

Independent Consultant

I was a software engineer on the Revenue Risk Team. I investigated and responded to threats to Twitter's revenue stream by developing software to analyze our logs, using MapReduce via Scalding.

Twitter

Software Engineer

- Developed software to detect Android malware based on behavioral analysis.
-  Co-authored Mobile Malware Madness and How to Cap the Mad Hatters, published at Black Hat 2011.

Dasient (acquired by Twitter)

Security Engineer

- Developed a computer-security architecture for ballistic missile defense — tested during a live-fire exercise. Briefed senior military leadership in the Pentagon's “War Room.” Primary author of "Towards Net-Centric Cyber Survivability for Ballistic Missile Defense."
-  Developed malware to test a U.S. Army intrusion-detection system

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Associate staff

- Investigated modeling terrorism and land combat as complex adaptive systems
-  Analyzed security threats relating to botnets

Institute for Defense Analyses

Intern

- Evaluated stealthiness of reverse-engineering tools
- Developed novel method for fingerprinting virtual-machine monitors

Research Staff

- Used statistical methods to find evidence of malicious insiders within server log files
- Used naive Bayesian classifier to build a phishing-detection system

Michael Gagnon