Minoru Kobayashi has over 15 years experience in the information security field. He works for Internet Initiative Japan Inc. as a forensic investigator and a CSIRT member of the company. His primary research themes are related to digital forensics tools such as libvshadow, attacking tools such as Mimikatz, and Windows features such as VSS. He is also interested in incident response, network security, malware analysis, and so on. He has been a speaker and a trainer at Mauritius 2016 FIRST TC, Osaka 2018 FIRST TC, and several information security events/conferences. He also holds CISSP certification.