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Logan MacLaren Staff Offensive Security Engineer, Huntress

Logan is the lead Offensive Security engineer at Huntress where he is responsible for planning and executing red team operations as well as bolstering incident response capability through purple team exercises. He has been a long time enthusiast in the security space, building a career spanning big data analytics, bug bounty, and offensive security.

Outside of his day job, Logan can often be found building and participating in CTF challenges, bug hunting in open source software, or learning new skills at conferences across the continent. He has had the honour of speaking at several DEFCON villages, NorthSec conferences, as well as multiple BSides and OWASP Ottawa events.

François Labrèche Principal Data Scientist, Sophos

François Labrèche is a Principal Data Scientist at Sophos, who focuses on applying machine learning approaches to research problems related to security alerts and vulnerabilities. He focuses on using machine learning to improve the prioritization of alerts and vulnerabilities, in the context of XDR and vulnerability management. He has a Ph.D. from École Polytechnique de Montréal, and has published research papers on the topics of threat research, spam detection, malware analysis and machine learning applied to cybersecurity. He has presented at ACSAC, CAMLIS, NorthSec, BSides Montreal, University College London and École Polytechnique de Montréal, and has published papers in conferences such as the ACM CCS and eCrime.