Rob Ragan is a Principal Researcher at Bishop Fox. Rob focuses on pragmatic solutions for clients and technology. He oversees strategy for continuous security automation. Rob has presented at Black Hat, DEF CON, and RSA. He is also a contributing author to Hacking Exposed Web Applications 3rd Edition. His writing has appeared in Dark Reading and he has been quoted in publications such as Wired.

Rob has more than a decade of security experience and once worked as a Software Engineer at Hewlett-Packard's Application Security Center. Rob was also with SPI Dynamics where he was a software engineer on the dynamic analysis engine for WebInspect and the static analysis engine for DevInspect.

Rob holds a Bachelor of Science from Pennsylvania State University with a major in Information Sciences and Technology and a focus on System Development.

Articles Written:

• Help Net Security - "Is Your Perimeter Inventory Leaving You Exposed? Why It’s time to Switch From IP to DNS"
• Dark Reading - "Get Organized Like a Villain"
• Help Net Security - "Red Teaming: Why a Forward Offense is the best defense

Past Speaking Engagements:

• 2019 Kaspersky SAS - "Ghost in the Browser: Broad-Scale Espionage With Bitsquatting"
• 2019 BSides San Francisco - "Twist & Shout: Ferris Buellers Guide to Abuse Domain Permutations"
• 2019 AppSec California - "Pose a Threat: How Perceptual Analysis Helps Bug Hunters"
• 2019 Art into Science, A Conference for Defense aka ACoD - "Pose a Threat: How Perceptual Analysis Helps Bug Hunters"
• 2016 Interop Las Vegas - "Social Engineering: The Bad, Better, and Best Incident Response Plans"
  
• 2015 BSides Pittsburgh, In The Burgh - "Never Surrender: Reducing Social Engineering Risk"
• 2014 Black Hat USA - "CloudBots: Harvesting Crypto Coins like a Botnet Farmer"
• 2014 RSA USA - "Cloud Ninja: Catch Me if You Can"
• 2011 Black Hat USA - "Pulp Google Hacking: The Next Generation Search Engine Hacking Arsenal"
• 2010 Black Hat USA - “Lord of the Bing: Taking Back Search Engine Hacking From Google and Bing.”

Subject Matter Expertise:

• Red Teaming
• Threat Modeling
• Web App
• IoT
• Social Engineering
• Startups/small business security
• High-level topical breaches
• Incidence Response
• CloudBots
• Attack Chaining
• Botnets