Jeff Moss

Founder & Director
Black Hat

Jeff Moss has spent the last 17 years as founder and director of Black Hat and DEF CON, two of the most important security conferences in the world. Moss is uniquely qualified with his ability to bridge the gap between the underground researcher community and law enforcement, between the worlds of pure research and the responsible application of disclosure.

Prior to Black Hat Briefings, Jeff was a director at Secure Computing Corporation where he helped establish their Professional Services Department in the United States, Asia, and Australia where he performed security assessments of large multi-national corporations. Jeff has also worked for Ernst & Young, LLP in their Information System Security division. Jeff graduated with a BA in Criminal Justice from Gonzaga University.

Moss speaks frequently before a wide range of audiences on the topic of computer and information security. Recently in 2009 Moss was appointed to the U.S. DHS Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) to provide advice and recommendations to the Secretary on matters related to homeland security. He moderated a panel at RSA 2009 on core infrastructure security threats. Moss also was a keynote speaker at the DOD Cybercrime Conference in St. Louis in 2009, spoke at the first CodeGate conference in South Korea in 2008, the first DeepSec conference in Vienna in 2007, as was a panelist at the Democracy, Terrorism and the Open Internet panel in 2005 in Madrid. He has also been a frequent panelist at RSA. In addition Moss has contributed to “Stealing the Network” a series of books that combine stories that are fictional with technology that is real.

Non security related interests include TSD Auto Rally, shooting, skiing, and a guilty addiction to playing Fallout.