Bryan Payne
Director, Security Research, Nebula
Director, Security Research, Nebula
Bryan D. Payne is the Director of Security Research at Nebula and co-founder of the OpenStack Security Group. Payne authored the OpenStack Security Guide and many research papers on virtual machine introspection. He is also the creator of LibVMI, an open source software library for runtime monitoring of virtual machines. Prior to joining Nebula, he worked at Sandia National Labs, the National Security Agency, BAE Systems and IBM Research. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Tech College of Computing, specializing in systems security. His research interests include operating system security, virtualization security, usable security, live and forensic memory analysis and trusted platforms.