Sam Suri is a privacy and security researcher, focused on protecting the privacy of our everyday movements and actions, the security of our devices, and the vulnerable groups that can be impacted the most by technology risks.
Sam has worked at a number of technology companies, helping them to proactively design security and privacy mechanisms and reactively tear down and mitigate known vulnerabilities. Security doesn't stop at memory corruption, it takes many forms and it impacts people where they are, so Sam is an advocate of 'privacy red teaming' and 'personal safety red teaming', which involve applying techniques from cybersecurity, from threat modeling to attacking systems, and applying them to a different set of assets (your privacy: from the places you go, to the websites you visit, to the things that can be inferred about you) and a different set of victims (their safety: from victims of intimate partner violence and technology facilitated abuse, to journalists at a border checkpoint).
Sam is currently interested in exploring how society, from security researchers, to government regulators, to everyday people, can better come to understand the security and privacy risks that exist around them, why they should care, and how they can advocate for a more secure, more private, and safer world. Sam is a member of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE).