
Brian Baskin
Simplicity Across Clouds Is Rare
91% of executives are looking to improve “consistency across [their] public cloud environments."
Applications Need to Be Modernized
68% of developers want to expand use of modern application frameworks, APIs and services.
Distributed Work Models Are Here to Stay
72% of enterprise employees are working from non-traditional environments.
Security Is a Top-Down Concern
Risk related to security, data and privacy issues remains the #1 multi-cloud challenge.
Give developers the flexibility to use any app framework and tooling for a secure, consistent and fast path to production on any cloud.
Deliver security and networking as a built-in distributed service across users, apps, devices, and workloads in any cloud.
Operate apps and infrastructure consistently, with unified governance and visibility into performance and costs across clouds.
Empower your employees to be productive from anywhere, with secure, frictionless access to enterprise apps from any device.
Run enterprise apps and platform services at scale across public and telco clouds, data centers and edge environments.
Get on a Faster Path to Prod
Build and deploy quickly and securely on any public cloud or on-premises Kubernetes cluster.
Simplify Kubernetes Operations
Build and operate a secure, multi-cloud container infrastructure at scale.
Pair with App Development Experts
Unlock value by modernizing your existing apps and building innovative new products.
Build, run, secure, and manage all of your apps across any cloud with application modernization solutions and guidance from VMware.
11 Security Practices to Manage Container Lifecycle
Get recommended practices for DevSecOps teams that desire a more modern app methodology.
Connect and Run with Confidence
Reduce time-to-value, lower costs, and enhance security while modernizing your private and public cloud infrastructure.
Enhance Digital Experiences
Securely, reliably, and optimally connect applications in the cloud and at the edge to deliver unique experiences.
Run enterprise apps at scale with a consistent cloud infrastructure across public clouds, data centers and edge environments.
VMware Research: Multi-Cloud Strategies
Learn why enterprises find multi-cloud strategies critical for success.
Deliver an Engaging Experience
Put employees first with device choice, flexibility, and seamless, consistent, high-quality experiences.
Secure Today’s Anywhere Workspace
Ease the move to Zero Trust with situational intelligence and connected control points.
Automate the Workspace
Manage to outcomes — not tasks — with intelligent compliance, workflow and performance management.
Enable any employee to work from anywhere, anytime with seamless employee experiences.
Remote Work Is No Longer Optional
Shift from supporting remote work to becoming an anywhere organization.
Secure & Connect Workloads
Operationalize consistent security and networking across apps, users, and entities with transparency built into our tools.
Protect APIs — the New Endpoints
Increase app velocity and centrally manage, secure, connect, and govern your clusters no matter where they reside.
Be Future-Ready
Get built-in threat intelligence spanning users, endpoints and networks to evolve your protection in a dynamic landscape.
Deliver security and networking as a built-in distributed service across users, apps, devices, and workloads in any cloud.
Protect Your Multi-Cloud Environments
Discover the unique characteristics of malware and how to stay ahead of attacks.
Work with a VMware Partner
Partners deliver outcomes with their expertise and VMware technology, creating exceptional value for our mutual customers.
Become a Partner
Together with our partners, VMware is building the new multi-cloud ecosystem positioned to become essential to our customers.
With thousands of partners worldwide, we are positioned to help customers scale their business, drive innovation and transform their customer experience.
Working Together with Partners for Customer Success
See how we work with a global partner to help companies prepare for multi-cloud.
The VMware Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) is composed of leading minds in cybersecurity research and analysis.
Brian Baskin is a Technical Lead on the VMware Threat Analysis Unit with over 20 years of experience in digital forensics, incident response, and malware analysis. He was previously an analyst for the US Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) where he specialized in investigating network intrusions against military assets and analyzing new malware attack campaigns. As an incident responder, he has managed large-scape responses and investigated many complex attacks. He has authored multiple security books and actively develops open source tools for more efficient malware analysis and incident response.
Since entering the industry, Taree Reardon has been fascinated with identifying and dissecting new and emerging threats. Taree particularly enjoys endpoint detection and incident response and is a GIAC certified Incident Handler. As part of her research, Taree regularly works on product efficacy initiatives. During her time at VMware Carbon Black, Taree has helped identify and analyze several new attack variants, including one of the first known exploits of the BlueKeep vulnerability in a customer’s environment. Taree has recently found a passion for mentoring and teaching the next generation of security professionals and has delivered a wide range of talks at B-Sides Boulder, Security Connect, and through online webinars.
Stefano Ortolani is Staff Engineer 2 at VMware, formerly Director of Threat Research at Lastline, where he joined in 2015 as a Security Researcher. In his current role, Stefano focuses on finding novel approaches to investigate, classify, and detect unknown cyber tradecraft. Prior to Lastline, he was part of the Global Research and Analysis Team at Kaspersky Lab, in charge of fostering operations with CERTs, governments, universities, and law enforcement agencies, as well as conducting research of the global threat landscape. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from VU University Amsterdam. Stefano is a regular speaker at technical conferences and authored/co-authored numerous research papers presented at venues such as Virus Bulletin, Security Analyst Summit, Underground Economy, and Black Hat.
Oleg Boyarchuck is a threat researcher at VMware. He is passionate about malware, vulnerabilities, reverse engineering, and Windows internals. Prior to joining VMware, he worked as a reverse engineer at Lastline where he was responsible for malware research and detection improvements. Before that, he worked as a kernel driver developer at Avira developing the core functionality of the Avira Antivirus.
Takahiro Haruyama is a Sr. Threat Researcher on the VMware Threat Analysis Unit (TAU), with over ten years of extensive experience and knowledge in malware analysis and digital forensics. He previously worked on reverse-engineering cyber espionage malware with Symantec's threat intelligence team. He has spoken at several notable conferences including Virus Bulletin, REcon, HITB, SANS DFIR Summit, and BlackHat Briefings USA/Europe/Asia.
Lavine Oluoh is a Threat Response Analyst with the Carbon Black Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Team. She is at the forefront helping customers defend against the latest attacks in their environment. Lavine spends most of her time analyzing fully or partially successful breaches to understand the current attack techniques and how best to defend against them. She is a GIAC certified Malware Reverse-Engineer with interest in forensic investigations, incident response and endpoint security.
Jason Zhang is a senior member of technical staff at the Threat Intelligence Team, VMware NSBU. As a highly motivated cyber threat researcher and a proven product and technology pioneer, Jason has a wealth of experience in technology and product R&D. Prior to joining VMware, Jason worked at Lastline, Sophos and Symantec specializing in cutting-edge research and automation in threat detection. Jason is a regular speaker at leading technical conferences including Black Hat, Virus Bulletin and InfoSec. Jason earned his Ph.D. in Signal Processing from King's College London & Cardiff University in the UK.
Giovanni Vigna is the Sr. Director of Threat Intelligence at VMware. He is also a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California in Santa Barbara (on leave). His research interests include malware analysis, vulnerability assessment, the underground economy, binary analysis, web security, and the applications of machine learning to security problems. Giovanni is also the founder of the Shellphish hacking group, who has participated in more DEF CON CTF competitions than any other group in history. He is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Fellow.
Sebastiano Mariani is a Threat Researcher at VMware, where he recently joined. Prior to that, he worked as a researcher in Seclab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His main interests are malware analysis and reverse engineering, but he also enjoys building network infrastructures and tools to aid security researchers in their daily tasks. He also enjoys participating and hosting capture the flag competition with the Shellphish team with whom he participated in DEF CON CTF finals for several years. He is also a previous Black Hat speaker where he presented his research on two occasions (Black Hat USA 2016 and Black Hat Europe 2017).