Shane Alexander Macaulay is a world class IT Security Specialist. Shane has a deep and broad security view, systems ranging from every major flavor of UNIX, Microsoft and networking operating systems. He has contributed to the security community through various papers, books and revolutionary technical applications. Shane has found a number of compiler bugs (native and managed) over the years; one was used to win the non-obvious source code backdoor contest in Defcon 2010.

Previous work was also published on his personal website as K2 (ktwo@ktwo.ca), www.ktwo.ca, of note is ADMmutate, a polymorphic shell code obfuscation API which is designed to defeat pattern matching systems. For the past several years Mr. Macaulay has been working on security products and solutions for the Microsoft platform. His current product BlockWatch is a virtual machine monitoring system that assesses physical memory and validates code sections against a white list database.