TALKS

Representing Google

• Burnout: My Invisible Adversary (video) (Black Hat EU 2023 Community Talk)
• Security Weekly - Incident command (video)
• “Excuse me while I kiss this guy” - What you said isn’t what they heard

• Talk to FIRST Incident Response forum about incident communications and how to do it better

• “Behind the Speculative Curtain (video) ” - Black Hat Panel on Spctre & Meltdown.

• Live panel w/ Red Hat, Microsoft, Google, CERT-CC
• Audience size ~1,100

• “CPU Security” for Google Cloud Podcast (audio) (M. Linton, P. Turner)

• 30 minute technical breakdown of CPU Side channels

• “You are the Weakest Link - and that’s OK”

• Talk about the technical and sociological realities of why phishing works so well, and what can be done about it.

• SANS DFIR Summit Lightning talk: “Network Disasters - when the bits hit the fan (video)”

• Talk delivered entirely in the form of a Dr. Seuss book, to win a bet

• “The Remediation Ballet” - Incident Response at Scale

• SANS Threat Hunting & IR Summit 2016
• FIRST Information Security Summit 2018

• Exploitation in Meatspace - Physical Penetration Testing Tips

• SANS Pen-Test Hackfest 2015

• “Go ahead, run your own mailserver - what, are you chicken?”

• SANS Pen-Test Hackfest 2016

• SANS DFIR Summit War-Games

• 2018, 2019 war-game exercises

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhUQcUZ4GJ8  (Forensic Lunch w/ David Cowen)

Representing NASA

• NASA Nebula - NASA’s secure by default private cloud

• SANS Cyber Security Innovation Summit (2013)

• NASA and IPOST: Security automation and gamification

• SANS Cyber Security Innovation Summit (2012)

• Oct 2010 - California CIO Information Security Forum (video)

• Representing NASA for Cloud Security (in 2010, cloud was a pretty new thing)

PUBLICATIONS:

Blog: https://medium.com/@matt_97344

• Operational Professionalizing vs Proceduralizing

• On Burnout in Cybersecurity
• You can’t Incident Command an Email Thread
• Proving Negatives
• On Fire Drills and Phishing Tests (blog)

• “Beats & Bytes: Striking the right Chord in Digital Forensics”

• Ryan Pittman, Cindy Murphy, Matt Linton

• “Building Secure & Reliable Systems” (Chapter 17: Crisis Management)

RECEPTION:

• Review of our blog posts for Spectre & Meltdown

• https://medium.com/@frankycaron/this-week-in-words-the-language-of-meltdown-and-spectre-126bf109e5c5