HellaSec

Cyber Fast Track

I am very excited to announce that DARPA has awarded funding to HellaSec through the Cyber Fast Track program. I'll be working with a fellow security researcher to develop novel security technology, which we plan to open source at the conclusion of the program.

See my blog post on MikeGagnon.com.

About

HellaSec is my part-time consulting gig, run by me, Mike Gagnon. I work with other computer-security professionals to perform research & development, red-team analyses, and security consulting.

Before HellaSec, I was a research staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a PhD student at Harvard, and a Security Engineer at Dasient (recently acquired by Twitter, where I now work full time). I have worked in areas ranging from ballistic missile defense to automated detection of Android malware.

Research

• Mobile Malware Madness, and How to Cap the Mad Hatters: A Preliminary Look at Mitigating Mobile Malware. Gerry Eisenhaur, Michael N. Gagnon, Tufan Demir, Neil Daswani. Blackhat, Las Vegas 2011.
• Towards Net-centric Cyber Survivability for Ballistic Missile Defense. Michael N. Gagnon, John Truelove, Apu Kapadia, Joshua Haines, and Orton Huang. International Symposium on Architecting Critical Systems (ISARCS) 2010.
• Software Protection through Anti-Debugging. Michael N. Gagnon, Stephen Taylor, Anup K. Ghosh. Security & Privacy, IEEE. Volume 5, Issue 3, May-June 2007 Page(s):82 – 84
• Bouncer: Provably Protecting Servers From High-Density DoS Attacks. Michael N. Gagnon and Stephen Chong, HellaSec, Technical Report, 2012.
• Adaptable Platform-Dependent Micro-Benchmarks. (Draft paper available)
• Enabling Browser-Based Cloud Computing for Typical Web Sites. (Draft paper available)

Contact

Mike Gagnon

Email: mike@hellasec.com
Personal homepage: http://mikegagnon.com
Twitter: @MichaelNGagnon