Rodrigo Rubira Branco (BSDaemon)

Rodrigo Rubira Branco, known as BSDaemon, is a Brazilian security researcher whose work has covered vulnerability research, kernel security, malware analysis, and open-source software.

Research and industry work

A Black Hat USA 2016 biography identified Branco as a Principal Security Researcher at Intel and described earlier roles at Qualys, Check Point, COSEINC, Scanit, and IBM's Advanced Linux Response Team.

Conference material published by HITB identifies him as BSDaemon and records research on operating-system and application vulnerabilities, as well as work concerning anti-forensics and exploitability analysis.

H2HC

Branco is an organizer of the Hackers to Hackers Conference (H2HC). Historical H2HC material and a Bugtraq conference announcement associate his name and BSDaemon handle with the event and its security-research program.

Timeline

• 2006A Hackers to Hackers Conference (H2HC) call for papers identifies Rodrigo Rubira Branco as BSDaemon.
• 2009HITB Dubai publishes his Advanced Payload Strategies conference material and biography.
• 2009A Bugtraq announcement lists BSDaemon in the uCon Security Conference speaker line-up.
• 2016Black Hat USA publishes his speaker biography for the DPTrace exploitability-analysis presentation.