Brent Holtsclaw
Security Researcher at Intel Corporation
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Holtsclaw is a security researcher based in the Portland, Oregon area with nine years of experience focused on platform and firmware security. He has been at Intel since 2017 after an eight-year stint as a cyber security analyst with the U.S. Department of Defense, bringing operational discipline to hardware-level threat hunting and vulnerability remediation. Brent contributes to the well-known CHIPSEC platform security assessment framework, improving driver-level security, firmware analysis tooling, and diagnostics to make low-level investigations more reliable. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Michigan State University and combines rigorous academic training with hands-on engineering in both government and industry settings. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges research and practical fixes—finding subtle firmware issues and shipping the tooling needed to reproduce and resolve them.
8 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Michigan State University
Github Skills (11)
c1710
firmware10
driver10
c1110
device-driver10
security10
security-txt9
security-scan9
python8
testing7
assembly6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chipsec/chipsec
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Platform Security Assessment Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:11 releases, 137 reviews, 557 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Brent primarily focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the platform assessment framework, as evident through code changes. The contributions include fixing vulnerabilities and addressing security issues within the driver code, enhancing functionality within existing features related to the hardware and firmware. These contributions include modifying and expanding existing code and documentation. The user also incorporated enhancements to the tools to aid in debugging and analysis, such as enhancing the display of information for tools.
security-toolsfirmwaresecurityfirmware-toolssecurity-platform
BrentHoltsclaw/edk2
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
EDK II
Contributions:10 pushes, 7 branches in 10 months
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