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Career

· Principal Engineer, Amazon Web Services (AWS)2021–
· Board Member and Co-Founder, Kernelcon2018–
· Team Lead (Cyber Grand Challenge Program), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)2013–2016
· PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University2009–2015
· Co-Founder & Senior Engineer, Diutinus Defense Technologies2009–2012
· Systems Engineer, Dell Technologies
· Teaching Roles, Naval Postgraduate School
· Senior Security Researcher, Secureworks
· Teaching Roles, University of Nebraska Lincoln
· Teaching Roles, University of Nebraska Omaha

Publications (40)

Guess Again (and Again and Again): Measuring Password Strength by Simulating Password-Cracking Algorithms
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · 2012
505
cited
How Does Your Password Measure Up? The Effect of Strength Meters on Password Creation
USENIX Security Symposium · 2012
352
cited
Measuring password guessability for an entire university
Conference on Computer and Communications Security · 2013
266
cited
Evading android runtime analysis via sandbox detection
ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security · 2014
253
cited
Toward a general collection methodology for Android devices
Digital Investigation. The International Journal of Digital Forensics and Incident Response · 2011
190
cited
All Your Droid Are Belong to Us: A Survey of Current Android Attacks
Workshop on Offensive Technologies · 2011
178
cited
Correct horse battery staple: exploring the usability of system-assigned passphrases
Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security · 2012
159
cited
Curbing Android Permission Creep
2011
156
cited
QRishing: The Susceptibility of Smartphone Users to QR Code Phishing Attacks
Financial Cryptography Workshops · 2013
95
cited
It's All about the Benjamins: An Empirical Study on Incentivizing Users to Ignore Security Advice
Financial Cryptography · 2011
65
cited
A5: Automated Analysis of Adversarial Android Applications
SPSM@CCS · 2014
63
cited
Sweetening android lemon markets: measuring and combating malware in application marketplaces
Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy · 2013
58
cited
Empirical analysis of solid state disk data retention when used with contemporary operating systems
Digital Investigation. The International Journal of Digital Forensics and Incident Response · 2011
57
cited
Usability of Forensics Tools: A User Study
2011 Sixth International Conference on IT Security Incident Management and IT Forensics · 2011
49
cited
The Acquisition and Analysis of Random Access Memory
Journal of Digital Forensic Practice · 2007
42
cited
OpenLV: Empowering investigators and first-responders in the digital forensics process
Digital Investigation. The International Journal of Digital Forensics and Incident Response · 2014
24
cited
Passe-Partout: A General Collection Methodology for Android Devices
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 2013
16
cited
Volatile Memory Acquisition via Warm Boot Memory Survivability
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · 2010
14
cited
SecureCore software architecture trusted path application (TPA) requirements
2007
9
cited
Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) monitor: A vetting system for the DARPA cyber grand challenge
Digital Investigation. The International Journal of Digital Forensics and Incident Response · 2018
6
cited
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