Tod Beardsley

Tod Beardsley was employed at CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, part of the US government, as the Vulnerability Response Section Chief (DHS/CISA/CSD/VM/VRC Response, technically). He's also a founder and CNA point of contact for AHA!. He spends much of his time involved in vulnerability research and coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD). He has over 30 years of hands-on security experience, stretching from in-band telephony switching to modern ICS/OT implementations. He has held IT ops, security, software engineering, and management positions in large organizations such as the US Government, Rapid7, 3Com, Dell, and Westinghouse, as both an offensive and defensive practitioner. Tod is a CVE Board member, has authored several research papers, and hosted Rapid7's Security Nation podcast with Jen Ellis. He is also a Travis County Election Judge in Texas, and is an internationally-tolerated horror fiction expert.

Tod can be uniquely identified at https://github.com/todb