Dave Maynor is a research scientist with Barracuda Labs. He is also co-founder and CTO of Errata Security. Prior to founding Errata Security, he has held positions for both security vendors and organizations in industries such as education and media. Maynor contributes heavily to the ProtoDev program with both proof-of‐concept software and newly discovered vulnerabilities. He is an author and sought-after speaker delivering cutting-edge research talks to audiences at conferences including Blackhat, Defcon, ToorCon, Microsoft’s Bluehat and CanSecWest. Maynor has been quoted in technology articles for international news outlets such as The New York Times, CNN and the Fox News Channel. As an author, Maynor has several books to his credit on information security and regularly contributes to Dark Reading, a leading information security news outlet.