CEO/Founder
HBGary
Greg Hoglund is the CEO and founder of HBGary. He has been a pioneer in the area of software security. After writing one of the first network vulnerability scanners (installed in over half of all Fortune 500 companies), he created and documented the first Windows NT-based rootkit, founding www.rootkit.com (rootkit.com) in the process. Greg went on to co-found Cenzic, Inc. (cenzic.com) through which he orchestrated numerous innovations in the area of software fault injection. He holds two patents. Greg is a frequent speaker at Black Hat, RSA and other security conferences. He is co-author of Exploiting Online Games (Addison Wesley 2007) and Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel (Addison Wesley 2005) and Exploiting Software: How to Break Code (Addison Wesley 2004).
Topic:
Faster, Massive, Immersive Security in the Age of Social Technology
Hoglund explores how software complexity and emergent properties evolve in social networks, and how this affects software security in the Enterprise. Social cyberspaces take many forms, from contact lists (think LinkedIn) to immersive online games (think World of Warcraft). The technology is powerful, but it's overshadowed by a cybercrime problem surpassing $100 billion dollars in damages per year. Hoglund illustrates that identity and presence in social cyberspace is ultimately implemented in software and that a black market exists for the exploitation of that software. The problem extends far beyond software vulnerabilities and into digital identity, trust, and human relationships.