Panel Debate: Embedded Security

Aaron Guzman is a Principal Security Consultant from the Los Angeles area with expertise in application security, mobile pentesting, web pentesting, IoT hacking and network penetration testing. He has previously worked with established tech companies such as Belkin, Linksys, Symantec and Dell, breaking code and architecting infrastructures. With Aaron’s years of experience, he has given a number of presentations at various conferences ranging from DEFCON and OWASP’s Appsec USA, to developer code camps around the world. Furthermore, Aaron is a Chapter leader for the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Los Angeles, President of Cloud Security Alliance SoCal (CSA SoCal), previous President of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association of Southern California (HTCIA SoCal) and a Technical Editor for Packt Publishing. He has contributed to many IoT security guidance publications from CSA, OWASP, Prpl, and others. You can follow Aaron’s latest research and updates on twitter at @scriptingxss.

Dave has 30 years of industry experience. He has extensive experience in IT security operations and management. Dave is a Global Advisory CISO for Cisco. He is the founder of the security site Liquidmatrix Security Digest & podcast as well as the host of DuoTV and the Plaintext podcast.  He is currently a member of the board of directors for BSides Las Vegas. Previously he served on the board of directors for (ISC)2 as well as being a founder of BSides Toronto conference. Dave has been a DEF CON speaker operations goon for over 10 years. Lewis also serves on the advisory board for the Black Hat Sector Security Conference and the CFP review board for 44CON.  Dave has previously written columns for Forbes, CSO Online, Huffington Post, The Daily Swig, and others. For fun, he is a curator of small mammals (his kids) plays bass guitar, grills, and is part owner of a whisky distillery as well as a soccer team.

Emma Lilliestam is an IT security technician, journalist and cyborg. She has always been fascinated with the vulnerabilities that can break civilization, and how to protect us from these. She has a passion for user security and the cultural reasons for insecure behaviour, as well as for IoT and DIY biohacking and self-tracking. Emma works as head of Devops, Privacy and Security at the IoT company Ewa Home.