Marquee Speakers

Daniel Genkin

Daniel Genkin is an Alan and Anne Taetle Early Career Associate Professor at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy at Georgia Tech. Daniel’s research interests are in hardware and system security, with particular focus on side channel attacks and defenses. Daniel’s work has been recognized by multiple academic and industry venues, as well as covered by national and scientific press. Recently, Daniel has been part of the team performing the first analysis of speculative and transient execution, resulting in the discovery of Spectre, Meltdown and follow ups. Daniel has a PhD in Computer Science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and has been awarded the 2024 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.

Daniel Gruss & Jonas Juffinger

Daniel caught our eyes as a student when he published Rowhammer attacks from JavaScript, cache attacks on ARM, and the Flush+Flush leak primitive. His work on keystroke timing attacks and using high-resolution timers from JavaScript showed the practicality of leveraging side-channels without system-level access. After graduation, his work included the legendary Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities. Daniel is an associate professor at the Graz University of Technology, leading the CoreSec group in the Secure Systems area. Jonas has focused on Rowhammer attacks and countermeasures such as CSI:Rowhammer and PTGuard. We are thrilled to have Daniel and Jonas Juffinger here to present SUIT.

Russell Handorf

Dr. Russell Handorf currently is an agent of chaos at a big tech company. Just recently he had a front row seat at another facepalm factory that went through a very public and very messy acquisition. And who could forget the time he was a principal threat intelligence hacker where he spent his time making criminal’s curse his very existence. He is also a fed in recovery after ten years of service defending the country in a variety of matters. He’s done a lot of other odd things here and there, but that isn’t important. “Let’s just have a conversation, but you’ll have to endure my dad-jokes.”

Patrick Miller

As a trusted independent security and regulatory advisor for more than 30 years, Patrick Miller has dedicated his career to the protection and defense of critical infrastructures. In addition to being the CEO of the industrial cybersecurity consulting firm Ampyx Cyber, he was one of the original architects and the first regulator of the NERC CIP Standards in North America and former Principal Investigator for the US Department of Energy’s National Electric Sector Cybersecurity Organization. Patrick is an internationally recognized public speaker, as well as an instructor for the Industrial Cybersecurity Center in Spain, Cyber Information Security Leader (CISL) program in Denmark, and formerly for the SANS Institute in the United States. Mr. Miller’s diverse background spans the Energy, Water, Telecommunications, Financial, and Insurance Services verticals including key positions with regulatory agencies, private consulting firms, utility asset owners and commercial organizations.

Colin O’Flynn

Colin is prolific in industry and academia. His most referenced works include attacks on ZigBee IoT systems, ChipWhisperer, an open-source platform supported by NewAE, and a wide array of side channels. When he isn’t working on his startup, NewAE Technology Inc., he is an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University and a prolific speaker.

Dan Petro

Dan “AltF4” Petro is a Senior Security Engineer at Bishop Fox. Dan is widely known for the tools he creates: Eyeballer (a convolutional neural network pentest tool), the Rickmote Controller (a Chromecast-hacking device), Untwister (pseudorandom number generator cracker), and SmashBot (a merciless Smash Bros noob-pwning machine).