David Warburton
Principal Threat Research Evangelist (EMEA)
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorDavid Warburton is a Principal Threat Research Evangelist at F5 Labs with over two decades in IT and more than a decade focused on security and threat research. He began as a full‑stack developer and evolved through cloud architecture and systems engineering into a public-facing security researcher who translates deep technical topics like cryptography into practical, sociotechnical risk insights. At F5 he leads original research, authors flagship reports such as Phishing and Fraud and TLS Telemetry, and co-authored the HTTPS scanning tool Cryptonice to help organisations harden application security. A seasoned conference and media speaker, he has briefed audiences from Infosec UK to GovWare Singapore and appeared on outlets including BBC World News and The Guardian. His academic work includes an MSc in Information Security from Royal Holloway with a thesis on cryptography in IoT, reflecting a long-standing interest in secure design for constrained devices. Based in Birmingham, he combines hands-on technical depth with a knack for communicating complex threats to diverse technical and non-technical audiences.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
French, English
Github Skills (22)
crypto10
ssl10
hsts10
security10
ja310
internet10
ssl-certificate10
protocols10
x509certificates10
tls139
dns9
api9
http-client9
ssh9
scanning9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
F5-Labs/cryptonice
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
CryptoNice is both a command line tool and library which provides the ability to scan and report on the configuration of SSL/TLS for your internet or internal facing web services. Built using the sslyze API and ssl, http-client and dns libraries, cryptonice collects data on a given domain and performs a series of tests to check TLS configuration and supporting protocols such as HTTP2 and DNS.
Contributions:2 releases, 175 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year 1 month
scansslyzesshabilitytls-certificate
F5-Labs/Top-Attacking-IPs
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Our Regional Threat Perspective reports highlight the top attacking IP addresses for each quarter.
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
reportshighlightperspectivesecurityaddresses
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