David Warburton

David Warburton is the Director of Threat Research Team, F5 Labs. He has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years, starting life as a full stack developer before wrangling with the perils of cloud architecture and then moving to the serene and peaceful life of cybersecurity. His research covers a wide range of topics from the deeply technical, such as cryptography, to the more real-world sociotechnical side of security. He has appeared on BBC News, Sky News, and other TV and print media. David co-authored the SSL/TLS/HTTPS scanning CI/CD tool ‘Cryptonice’ and received a master's degree with distinction in Information Security from Royal Holloway University of London where his thesis was on the use of security and cryptography in IoT protocols.