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 Lewis has almost two decades of industry experience. He has extensive experience in IT operations and management. Currently, Lewis is a Global Security Advocate for Akamai Technologies. He is the founder of the security site Liquidmatrix Security Digest and cohost of the Liquidmatrix podcast. Lewis also serves on the (ISC)2 Toronto Chapter Board of Directors. Lewis writes a column for CSO Online and Forbes.

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.