Randy Pargman
Randy absolutely loves digital forensics and has worked on computer crime investigations, examining malware C2 servers, reverse-engineering malware, and attributing intrusions to threat actors in past jobs. For the last five years, Randy has focused on the other side of intrusions, detecting malware behavior on endpoints to stop incidents before they start, with a particular focus on detecting threats that use email as an initial vector. He has taught workshops and given presentations at DEF CON, Botconf, Hack in Paris, Toorcamp, Hushcon, TROOPERS, Underground Economy, Texas Cyber Summit, MITRE Malware Technical Exchange, CircleCityCon, and most importantly, PancakesCon! Randy is one of the founding members of DEATHCon, focused on Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting.
What year did you join The DFIR Report?
2022
Fun fact
I love bicycling, kayaking, camping and hiking in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. I also love to cook for my friends and family. I enjoy weird hobbies like communicating in Morse code, and writing malware that uses MS Teams as a C2 channel. Once, I crocheted malware at Botconf ;) My Grandmother taught me programming as a kid, and also taught me how to crochet.
