Kurt Baumgartner

About Kurt Baumgartner

Deliver best-in-class APT report content based on my own incident analysis, reversing, and research efforts, and collaboration with others on our team. Develop complex YARA rules and product detections. Collect and distribute observables, otherwise described as IOC. Interact with, support, and exchange with customer researchers. Over 20 years experience in cybersecurity - making and breaking network and host based security functionality. Generally interested in privacy and crypto technologies. I frequently support other researchers\' work as a part of various working groups. And my research appears frequently on securelist.com, often posted as a part of \"GReAT\" writeups. Speak with media on cybersecurity matters - provide background interviews and quotable content for Threatpost, DarkReading, NY Times, USA Today, Time, Cyberscoop, Al Jazeera, The Register, WSJ, Reuters, Ars Technica, the Washington Post, Forbes, Wired, Vice, Haber7, CBS news, more. Present on cybersecurity matters at our annual Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit (SAS), the Virus Bulletin, the Billington Cybersecurity Summit, the first Cyberwarcon, and many others over the past decade. Presented on reverse engineering, advanced technologies, and more for academic groups at CU-Boulder, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Clemson, and others. Some of my work has been referenced in academic articles and research efforts like Thomas Rid and Ben Buchanan\'s \"Attributing Cyber Attacks\", and Mitre\'s ATT & CK framework. Acknowledged in Thomas Rid\'s \"Rise of the Machines\", Kim Zetter\'s \"Countdown to Zero Day\", Ben Buchanan\'s \"The Hacker and the State\" and more.

Experience

1. Principal Security Researcher, Global Research and Analysis Team

   Kaspersky

   Jul 2010 — Present

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Bachelor of Science

  1991 — 1996