$ cat mission.txt
Keeping the Internet together by occasionally taking it apart.
We're a security firm from California on a mission to make the Internet safer for everybody. Right now, that means pushing the frontier of vulnerability research with AI, figuring out what's possible before the wrong people do.
The Crew
$ ls leadership/
$ whoami
Thai Duong /thaidn
Chief
Thai was born in Saigon and grew up on the Internet. He has spent most of his adult life breaking things for a living. During 12 years at Google, he worked on security and cryptography, helping create tools such as Google Tink and Project Wycheproof. Before that, he helped discover the SSL attack trilogy: BEAST, CRIME, and POODLE. Together with Juliano Rizzo, he won a Pwnie Award for Best Server-Side Bug.
These days, Thai is part of Calif, a security research firm specializing in AI security. His official title is CEO, which, according to Dilbert, makes him the least competent person in the company.
$ whoami
An Trinh
Co-founder & CTO
An is a research-driven penetration tester with a suspicious number of maximum bounties from PayPal, Netflix, and Walmart. He maintains a 100% success rate in red teaming engagements, a statistic both reassuring and slightly alarming. An has spoken at Black Hat Europe, ZeroNights St. Petersburg, and BSides Singapore, usually about things that shouldn't have worked but did.
✓ 100% red team success rate
$ ls advisors/
$ whoami
Michał Zalewski /lcamtuf
Advisor
Michał wrote afl-fuzz, the tool that finds bugs faster than most people can deny them. A security researcher, author, and longtime breaker of things, he's contributed more to the art of crashing software than most malware ever did. Previously at Google and Snap, he now divides his time between writing, research, and inventing new ways to prepare for the inevitable apocalypse, irresponsibly disclosed, of course.
✓ created afl-fuzz
🏆 Pwnie Award for Lifetime Achievement
$ whoami
Parisa Tabriz
Advisor
Parisa runs Chrome at Google and leads Project Zero, a small band of wannabe hackers who spend their days discovering vulnerabilities and their nights trying to name them dramatically. Officially, she's Google's "Security Princess." Unofficially, she's the reason your browser updates while you sleep. Beyond Google, she's lectured at Harvard, advised the White House, and occasionally translates hacker-speak for Hollywood screenwriters.
✓ Google Security Princess