The Iru Blog

What Mac Security Researchers Actually Do

The biggest challenge faced by Mac security researchers today: Too many people still subscribe to the idea that Mac systems are impervious to security threats. That was the top takeaway from a conversation I recently had with two of those security pros: Tony Piazza, purple team lead and offensive security engineer at Nvidia, and Christopher Lopez, senior researcher at Kandji. We talked about how they got to where they are in their careers, how they spend their workdays now, and how they try to tell the world a more realistic story about Mac security.