Paul Sabanal is a security researcher on IBM ISS's X-Force Advanced Research Team. He has spent most of his career as a reverse engineer, starting out as a malware researcher, and now does vulnerability analysis and exploit development as well. He has previously presented at Blackhat with Mark Yason on the subject of C++ reversing. His main research interests these days are in protection technologies and automated binary analysis tools. He is currently based in Manila, Philippines.