Pierre-Nicolas Allard-Coutu Senior Penetration Tester, Bell Canada
Pierre-Nicolas Allard-Coutu is a senior penetration tester and offensive security R&D lead at Bell Canada's Security Testing and Incident Response team (STIRT). He is a seasoned red team operator with many years of experience specialized in the development of malware payloads and payload delivery systems. More recently, he has spearheaded the creation of physical penetration test methodologies including novel exploitation techniques aimed at compromising UEFI pre-boot environments and enabling Direct Memory Access vectors against modern laptops. He is currently the top public contributor to the Quebec Government Cyber Defense Center's vulnerability disclosure program, and part of the HackFest Challenge design team. The type of person who could never resist placing ">