Sam Cornwell is a Senior InfoSec Engineer at The MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit company that runs six federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) as well as manages CVE. Since 2011, he has been working on projects such as Checkmate (a kernel and userspace memory integrity verification and timing-based attestation tool), Copernicus, (a BIOS extractor and configuration checker), and several other private security sensors designed to combat sophisticated threats. He has also researched and developed attacks against UEFI SecureBoot.