Stephen Lawler is the founder and president of a small computer software and security consulting firm. Stephen has been actively working in information security for over seven years, primarily in reverse-engineering, malware analysis, and vulnerability research. He was a member of the Mandiant Malware Analysis Team and assisted with high-profile computer intrusions affecting several Fortune 100 companies. Previously he worked in ManTech International’s Security and Mission Assurance (SMA) division, where he discovered numerous zero-day vulnerabilities and software exploitation techniques as part of ongoing software assurance efforts. In a prior life that had nothing to do with computer security, he was lead developer for the sonar simulator component of the US Navy SMMTT program.