Ross Bryant
Ross Bryant, Ph.D. is the Chief of Research at Phylum and leads the Phylum Research Team. Ross has over two decades of cybersecurity and math research experience. Prior to joining Phylum in late 2021, he worked as a research project lead at Sandia National Labs where he led a team that researched and developed real-time analytic solutions to network forensics problems. He has also worked in cybersecurity operations for the NSA and U.S. Air Force and as an Applied Research Mathematician for the NSA.
Sessions
Nation-state actors are actively targeting software developers in open-source software. You will learn in this talk about two recent npm campaigns attributed to a North Korean state-sponsored cyber threat group, the Lazarus Group. Software developers armed with these details of their motivations and evolving tactics are better equipped to defend themselves from this serious threat. This talk is intended for all audiences. No prior knowledge of malicious code or malware is assumed.