David M. N. Bryan is a Hacker with X-Force Red, IBM’s elite security testing team. David has 25+ years of Information Security experience and knowledge that he uses to create custom attack scenarios for/with our clients. His primary skill sets involve penetration testing embedded computing/hardware, ATMs, and mainframes. David runs and leads many projects, and often acts as a liaison with clients.

David has been a defender of security at a top ten bank, setup and secured the DEF CON network, and has run hundreds of engagements with clients. David has been a participant in the information security community for 25+ years, first starting out as a DEF CON volunteer (Goon) - and now is on the board that runs Thotcon, a Chicago Information Security conference. For the last 15+ years David has been the attacker in many scenarios as a penetration tester covering hardware, mainframe, network, embedded, wireless, web applications, and physical security. David has presented at BlackHat, DEF CON, ToorCon, LayerOne, ToorCamp, BSides Events, and AppSecUSA.