Aaron Boyd
Senior Security Research Engineer at Cisco Talos
Mason, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Boyd is a Senior Security Research Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience in network threat detection, malware analysis, and command-and-control (C2) identification, currently at Cisco Talos. He progressed through roles at Cisco Talos Intelligence Group and Northrop Grumman, bringing practical software engineering experience from government contracts to advanced threat research. Aaron combines deep malware reverse-engineering skills with software development chops gained early in his career rebuilding Java web apps with modern front-end frameworks. Based in Mason, Ohio, he has a strong academic foundation from the University of Cincinnati and a track record of translating defensive research into actionable detection capabilities. Colleagues describe him as detail-oriented and pragmatic, able to bridge low-level analysis with deployable network detections. He often uncovers subtle C2 behaviors that evade signature-based systems, turning obscure telemetry into reliable indicators.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Sophomore, Computer Science, Sophomore at University of Cincinnati - College of Engineering and Applied Science
Github Skills (16)
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malware6
payload6
reverse-engineering5
yara4
to-do2
stat2
statistics1
libvirt1
python1
azure1
bazel-rules1
cloud-computing1
bazel1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aaron-boyd/Corvus
Apr 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
aaron-boyd/aaron-boyd.github.io
Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:256 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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