Patrick Wardle is Director of Research at Synack, where he leads Research and Development efforts. His current focus is on identifying emerging threats in OSX and mobile malware. In addition, Patrick is an experienced vulnerability and exploitation analyst and has found multiple exploitable 0days in major operating systems and popular client applications. In his limited spare time he writes iOS apps for fun (and hopefully one day, for profit). Patrick’s prior roles include security research work with VRL and the NSA.