Kat Traxler

Kat Traxler is the Principal Security Researcher at Vectra AI, focusing on abuse techniques and vulnerabilities in the public cloud. Before her current role, she worked at various stages in the SDLC, performing web application penetration testing and security architecture. Kat’s research philosophy directs her work to where design flaws and misconfigurations are most probable. This guiding principle leads her research to the intersection of technologies, particularly the convergence of cloud security and application security, and where the OS layer interfaces with higher-level abstractions. Kat has presented at conferences worldwide on topics such as privilege escalation in GCP and bug-hunting in the cloud. She can be found on the Internet as @nightmareJS.