Handle: Mando Picker
IRL: Dustin Childs
Rank: Security Program Manager
Likes: Protecting customers, working with security researchers, second Tuesdays, bourbon, mandolins
Dislikes: Using “It’s hard” as an excuse, quitting when it gets tough, banjos
Hello All,
I enjoy telling stories. Perhaps, in a former life, I spent time as a bard telling stories of Robin Hood and Maid Marian as I travelled from town to town.
Handle: Cluster
IRL: Maarten Van Horenbeeck
Rank: Senior Program Manager
Likes: Slicing covert channels, foraging in remote memory pools, and setting off page faults
Dislikes: The crackling sound of crypto breaking, warm vodka martni
“We want to remain what we are” (“Mir wëlle bleiwe wat mir sinn”) is the national motto of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
This year marks the tenth BlueHat at Microsoft, and my sixth round in participating in the event that has been so instrumental in keeping Microsoft developers and executives in touch with the pulse of security research outside Microsoft, and serves as one of the key crossroads for the exchange of ideas from our internal security experts to the outside world.
Handle: Silver Surfer
IRL: Mike Reavey
Rank: Director, MSRC
Likes: Warm weather, Battlestar Galactica, and responsibly reported vulnerabilities
Dislikes: Rain, Rain without end, Clouds with potential for rain, reality TV, and unpatched vulns
I’m here playing MC at the tenth edition (!!!) of the BlueHat Security Briefings on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond.