Michael Atlas

AI Researcher

Haifa, Haifa District, Israel27 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in reverse engineering and security research.
Extensive experience in Android and Linux kernel security.
Proficient in developing automated security tools.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert with a focus on reverse engineering and vulnerability assessment.

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Skills

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Secure Code ReviewVulnerability AssessmentAutomatic Obfuscation and De-obfuscationVarious Hacking and Protection TechniquesEmbedded SystemsEmbedded SoftwareSoftware DevelopmentDebuggingComputer SecurityAlgorithmsSoftware EngineeringMultithreadingSystem ArchitectureDevice DriversBash

About

Security researcher with vast programming experience. Specialties: Reverse engineering, Android/Linux kernel based privilege escalation, Security research, Protocol analysis, Fuzzing, Vulnerability assessment, Automatic obfuscation and de-obfuscation, Various hacking and protection techniques, etc C++, C, Assembly (x86-64, arm, MIPS) Python, IDAPython, IDA, etc Solaris and Linux programming (both user and kernel space) OS internals (*nix, QNX, OS internals research) SGX and SGX SDK Reverse engineering stack exchange profile : http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/users/2318/w-s

Experience

27 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 9 mos

Current Experience

Activefence

Security Researcher

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Argus cyber security ltd.

Security Researcher

Feb 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

ECU research and pen-testing.

Zecops

Security Researcher

Nov 2019 – Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos

On-device and external forensic data collectors
Forensics data analysis service
Threat research and device data dump analysis
Building proof of concept demonstrations and other prototyping

Nso group

Security Researcher

Jun 2017 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Android kernel based privilege escalation and all things around

Intel corporation

Security Researcher

Jun 2015 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs · Haifa, Israel

Security and crypto code and architecture reviews (mostly firmware level)
SGX usages code and architecture reviews
Ongoing development teams support from the architecture definition up to product release and maintenance
Writing and maintaining tools for automated code checks (Klocwork scriptology, LLVM IR analysis, IDAPython)
Penetration testing of the target products

Cisco

Software security analyst

Sep 2008 – Jun 2015 · 6 yrs 9 mos

Security evaluation and reverse engineering of various software products running on iOS, Linux, QNX, VxWorks and Windows
Building proof of concept demonstrations and other prototyping
Design and development of tools for automatic obfuscation, de-obfuscation, and binary code-analysis
Design and development of various research support tools

Imperva

Software engineer

Jun 2006 – Sep 2008 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Solaris and Linux system call interception rootkit like kernel module
Solaris and Linux inter-process communication sniffing driver for database audit purposes
Cross-platform network and IPC traffic sniffing tool porting and maintenance on Solaris, AIX and HP-UX platforms
OS level research and process filtering engine