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, initially as a malware researcher and now focusing mainly on vulnerability analysis and exploit development. He has previously presented at Blackhat with Mark Yason on the subject of C++ reversing and Adobe Reader's Protected Mode Sandbox. His main research interests these days are in protection technologies and automated binary analysis tools. He is currently based in Manila, Philippines.