Noted researcher and industry commentator for over 15 years, Grugq rarely makes an appearance State-side. Grugq started his career at a Fortune 100 company before transitioning to @stake, where he was forced to resign for publishing a Phrack article on anti-forensics. Since then he continued to disrupt in traditional blackhat style, via work as a professional penetration tester, developer, and full time security researcher. After a failed career suicide attempt (by telling journalists how it really is) Grugq continued to lead opinion and cyber-thinking, sometimes by sharing his research around counterintelligence and the intersection of traditional tradecraft and the hacker skillset, and other times by reminding us of lessons we already learned but forgot.
recognize both excellence and incompetence in the field of information security