Ezz T.

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About Ezz T.

Keynoted, spoke & trained at Blackhat(US, Canada, EU, MEA, Asia), Defcon(all stages, incl wall of sheep, blue team, ICS, telco, iot, cloud, & packet hacking villages), SANS(incl DFIR Summit). Ezz is an AI & Security PhD dropout from UWaterloo [one of the best 5 labs in the world in Security, AI & Algorithms research] and a serial entrepreneur. A hacker turned threat researcher turned cyber data scientist. Ezz founded a 6-figure social media venture, with a team of 10, by the age of 14. He wrote Fully Un Detectable (FUD) malware that MSFT later took down, became a Cert Ethical Hacker, led an ethical hacking group, and during his bachelor's was elected to head the biggest American univ student club by the age of 15. By the age of 16, he won technical data science & cyber competition awards at Princeton, Northwestern & Yale univs & received prizes from Microsoft, Trustwave, & Private Internet Access & received 2nd place in the prestigious GeekWeek Canadian Gov CTF. He founded, coached & led the McMaster's competitive programming team to breaking ACM ICPC records and ranking 3rd in ECNA, by the age of 17. He built various patent-pending security solutions, hardware, and software, and studied entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School by the age of 18. He started his CS PhD studies specializing in cyber data science at the prestigious UWaterloo by the age of 19. By the age of 20, his work had contributed to numerous top conference & journal papers in AI and Cyber Security, and he became a technical reviewer for prestigious cybersecurity, ML, privacy & networks conferences. Ezz has written over 15 academic articles on technology and leadership, went to YC Startup School, and became a Google Professional Architect, Certified Information Security Manager, Certified in Risk & Information Systems Control, as well as a Project Management Professional by the age of 22. He is frequently quoted in the industry & had won 7 digits non-dilutive funding, worked on cyber projects with Rogers, Royal Bank of Canada, Orange, Huawei, Bell, TELUS, Ericsson, Ciena, Thales, CGI, & various Governments as well as was backed by TechStars & ORNL, by the age of 23. Orgs: Prof- ISACA, OWASP, TASK, PMI, SecTOR, GeekWeek, Google, Ec-Council Edu- Waterloo Cryptography Security & Privacy Lab, Mcmaster Eng, HBS, Conrad Eng: Professional Engineers Ontario & OSPE NA: US Dept of Defense DevSecOps CoP, ITAC, Smart CyberSec (SERENE-RISC), Defense & Security Foresight Group, The Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security & Society (TSAS) Academic: AMS, ACM & ComSocTech