Tod Beardsley (@todb) is engineering manager for the open source Metasploit project, as well as one of the core developers on the framework. His background is primarily in intrusion prevention, vulnerability assessment and identification, anti-fraud/anti-phishing countermeasures, penetration testing and compliance auditing, intrusion detection and response, protocol analysis, and host hardening. He is also interested in computer crime forensics and recovery, reverse engineering and binary analysis, steganographic communication channels, and cryptography in general.

Tod’s technical specialties include protocol analysis and reverse engineering, intrusion detection and prevention, phishing and online fraud, open source software engineering collaboration, and application vulnerability research and exploitation.