Nathan Hamiel is a Senior Consultant at Idea Information Security and the leader of the practice’s technical security team. He is also an Associate Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Advancing Technology. Nathan founded the Hexagon Security Group and is the sole contributor to the Neohaxor blog. Nathan spends most of his time in the areas of application, Web 2.0, and enterprise security.
Nathan was one of the original developers of the FairuzaWRT hacking firmware for the Linksys WRT wireless routers and is currently writing tools focused around web application security. His latest tool, called MonkeyFist, performs Dynamic Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. He has spoken previously at many different events which have included Black Hat, DefCon, ShmooCon, ToorCon, HOPE, and many others.