Adam Zabrocki

Adam 'pi3' Zabrocki is a director of offensive security at NVIDIA and specializes in low-level security research. He created the Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) project defended by Openwall and has worked in Microsoft, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), HISPASEC Sistemas (virustotal.com), Wroclaw Center for Networking and Supercomputing, and Cigital. Adam has contributed to numerous projects, found vulnerabilities in various systems (including Hyper-V, KVM, RISC-V ISA, Intel's Reference Code, Intel/NVIDIA vGPU, Linux kernel, FreeBSD, OpenSSH, gcc SSP/ProPolice, Apache, and more), and studied exploitation and mitigation techniques, publishing his research in Phrack Magazine. He serves as vice chair of the RISC-V J-extension group and has developed key security extensions for RISC-V ISA (Pointer Masking/HWASAN, Control Flow Integrity). Adam is a co-author of Windows Internals and was nominated twice for The Pwnie Awards. He has spoken at major security conferences like Blackhat and DEF CON, Security BSides, Confidence, and more.