Abdul-Aziz Hariri is a security researcher with the Zero Day Initiativeprogram. In this role, Hariri analyzes and performs root-cause analysis onhundreds of vulnerabilities submitted to the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI)program, which is the world's largest vendor-agnostic bug bounty program. Hisfocus includes performing root-cause analysis, fuzzing and exploitdevelopment. Prior to joining ZDI, Hariri worked as an independent securityresearcher and threat analyst for Morgan Stanley emergency response team.During his time as an independent researcher, he was profiled by Wiredmagazine in their 2012 article, Portrait of a Full-Time Bug Hunter. In 2015,Abdul was part of the research team that submitted "Breaking SilentMitigations - Gaining code execution on Isolated Heap and MemoryProtectionhardened Internet Explorer" to the Microsoft bounty program. Their submissionnetted the highest payout to date from the Microsoft bounty program where theproceeds went to many STEM organizations. Twitter: @abdhariri