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Fuzzing, Forensics and Flowers with Amanda Rousseau AKA Malware Unicorn

<p>Amanda Rousseau, Offensive Security Engineer for the Microsoft Offensive Research and Security Engineering Team, joins Nic Fillingham and Wendy Zenone on this week's episode of The BlueHat Podcast. Amanda loves malware; she worked as an Offensive Security Engineer on the Red Team at Facebook, a Malware Researcher at Endgame, and the U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center. Amanda mainly focuses on vulnerability, research fuzzing, and security engineering and discusses with Nic and Wendy her time reviewing and analyzing offline digital devices, known as Dead-Box Forensics, reverse engineering malware, and how she finds success from her creative and artistic background.  </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>In This Episode You Will Learn</strong>:    </p><p> </p><ul><li>What "shift left" means as a security professional </li><li>How to learn more about fuzzing and understand some of the tooling </li><li>Why having a creative background helps when communicating with security teams  </li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Some Questions We Ask:</strong>    </p><p> </p><ul><li>How would you describe fuzzing for someone that's doesn't know the definition?   </li><li>What is Dead-Box Forensics, and can you share the investigative process? </li><li>How can we make fuzzing and security more accessible and less intimidating for developers? </li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Resources:</strong>   </p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/malwareunicorn/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">View Amanda Rousseau on LinkedIn</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendyzenone/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">View Wendy Zenone on LinkedIn</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicfill/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">View Nic Fillingham on LinkedIn</a> </p><p> </p><p>Follow Amanda on <a href="https://twitter.com/malwareunicorn?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://malwareunicorn.org/#/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">malwareunicorn.org</a></p><p> </p><p>Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at<a href="https://news.microsoft.com/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> microsoft.com/podcasts</a>  </p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

The BlueHat Podcast · Microsoft

August 9, 202340m 49s

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Show Notes

Amanda Rousseau, Offensive Security Engineer for the Microsoft Offensive Research and Security Engineering Team, joins Nic Fillingham and Wendy Zenone on this week's episode of The BlueHat Podcast. Amanda loves malware; she worked as an Offensive Security Engineer on the Red Team at Facebook, a Malware Researcher at Endgame, and the U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center. Amanda mainly focuses on vulnerability, research fuzzing, and security engineering and discusses with Nic and Wendy her time reviewing and analyzing offline digital devices, known as Dead-Box Forensics, reverse engineering malware, and how she finds success from her creative and artistic background.  

 

 

In This Episode You Will Learn:    

 

  • What "shift left" means as a security professional 
  • How to learn more about fuzzing and understand some of the tooling 
  • Why having a creative background helps when communicating with security teams  

 

Some Questions We Ask:    

 

  • How would you describe fuzzing for someone that's doesn't know the definition?   
  • What is Dead-Box Forensics, and can you share the investigative process? 
  • How can we make fuzzing and security more accessible and less intimidating for developers? 

 

Resources:   

View Amanda Rousseau on LinkedIn 

View Wendy Zenone on LinkedIn 

View Nic Fillingham on LinkedIn 

 

Follow Amanda on Twitter and malwareunicorn.org

 

Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts  


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