Adrian Wood

CEO

Greensboro, North Carolina, United States18 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

15 years of experience in offensive security.
Renowned speaker at major cybersecurity conferences.
Expert in machine learning security and supply chain attacks.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity Expert specializing in Offensive Security and Machine Learning Security.

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Skills

Core Skills

Offensive SecurityMachine Learning SecurityRisk ManagementCybersecurity ResearchEducationCybersecurityCybersecurity Management

Other Skills

Adversary EmulationPurple TeamingIncident ReadinessSecurity Control GapsAutomated Systems SecurityRisk AssessmentAdversarial Machine LearningExploit DevelopmentBug Bounty ManagementCloud SecuritySupply Chain SecurityApplication Exploit DevelopmentIncident ResponsePerimeter OperationsPhD Supervision

About

A colleague once called me their 'archangel of exploits' and I'll never forget it. I'm working on living up to that. My interests currently lie at the intersection of offensive security, AI/ML and supply chain attacks. I'm a security researcher & former company director with ~ 15 years experience in physical, network & application security assessments and offensive security engagements. As a presenter and workshop facilitator at conferences like DEFCON, Cackalackycon, Black Hat, various bSides and more, I have a reputation for my forthrightness and unique delivery style; hefty doses of truth and humor whilst providing meaningful advice and direction. I have extensive experience in red teaming, incident response, research, pentest, auditing & compliance reporting for a variety of US and Australian Standards. Experienced Company Director & Board Member, capable of leading teams in high pressure environments.

Experience

18 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Dropbox

2 roles

Staff Offensive Security Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Performing Adversary Emulation, Purple Teaming and training. Key contributor to a quant risk program measuring security control gaps and effectiveness.
DRI for Machine Learning/AI Security; established programs for design reviews, incident readiness, performed attacks on machine learning systems such as supply chain, model evasion & poisoning. Set the standard for LLM implementation and integration & established security controls and policies, such as for automated systems that perform code generation for personal assistant
Field questions from board members, write drafts for public quarterly investor updates. Org-wide contributions to browser, container, Kubernetes related security.
Security DRI for a new flagship AI product; Dash.
Designed adversarial ML projects for use by red team, such as agentic hackbots which perform dozens of steps on target systems, and implementing adversarial ML techniques to aid in creation of malware and phishing content.

Adversary EmulationPurple TeamingMachine Learning SecurityIncident ReadinessSecurity Control GapsAutomated Systems Security+1

'lil Droplet - The Shadowboxers; DBX Red Team

Apr 2022 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Adversary Emulation
Exploit Dev & Research
ML Security
Passionate Supply Chain Attacker

Adversary EmulationExploit DevelopmentMachine Learning SecurityOffensive Security

Wells fargo

2 roles

Cyber Security Research Strategist

May 2021 – Apr 2022 · 11 mos

exploit development and reversing, bug bounty management, perimeter operations, SecDevOps, Cloud Sec, Supply Chain Security, training and mentorship.

Exploit DevelopmentBug Bounty ManagementCloud SecuritySupply Chain SecurityCybersecurity Research

Tech Lead - Cyber Security Research Scientist

May 2017 – May 2021 · 4 yrs

Application exploit development, incident response, virtual patching, perimeter operations, training and development.

Application Exploit DevelopmentIncident ResponsePerimeter OperationsCybersecurity Research

Financial industry

Info Security Sr Engineer

Sep 2016 – May 2017 · 8 mos · Wurlwide

Application Security, Pentesting, exploit research & development.

Application SecurityPentestingExploit ResearchCybersecurity

University of new england, armidale

Adjunct Network Security Analyst - School Of Science and Technology

Mar 2015 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Armidale, NSW

PhD supervision, lecturing, unit advisory.

PhD SupervisionLecturingUnit AdvisoryEducation

Whitehack

Managing Director

Sep 2013 – Sep 2016 · 3 yrs

I'm the Director at WHITEHACK, a team of highly skilled ethical hackers who love our jobs and aim to provide the most comprehensive level of risk based security for our clients.
Services include;
Network penetration testing (ethical hacking), internet security consulting and auditing, web & application testing,

Network Penetration TestingInternet Security ConsultingWeb Application TestingCybersecurity Management