Ryan Cobb
Principal Security Researcher at Microsoft
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Cobb is a Principal Security Researcher with 12 years of hands-on experience in incident response, digital forensics, and threat research, currently focused at Microsoft after a decade at Secureworks. He blends frontline IR consulting experience with deep forensic training from the University of Rhode Island, enabling him to translate complex adversary behavior into actionable detection and mitigation strategies. Ryan has progressed from intern to principal researcher, reflecting strong operational judgment and a knack for scaling defensive capabilities across enterprise environments. He maintains a public-facing technical voice (see his detect.dev whoami blog) and often explores practical tooling and detection research that bridges blue-team operations and product security. Based in Providence, Rhode Island, he pairs philosophical rigor from his BA with technical curiosity, which surfaces in clear forensic analysis and threat narratives that help teams prioritize risk.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate Digital Forensics, Graduate Certificate Digital Forensics at University of Rhode Island
Github Skills (1)
python6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rcobb76101/pycryptoclone
Jan 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
rcobb76101/bulk_volatility_scanner
Jan 2014 - Jul 2016
Python script to run battery of Volatility plugins against a forensic memory image
Contributions:16 commits, 5 pushes in 2 years 6 months
python
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