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Dustin Childs

Dustin Childs is Head of Threat Awareness at Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, the world’s largest vendor-agnostic bug bounty program. A long-standing voice in vulnerability research and disclosure, he helps translate complex zero-day, exploit, and patching issues into practical insight for security teams, vendors, and the wider public. 

Dustin began his information security career in the late 1990s at the U.S. Air Force Information Warfare Center before moving into defence contracting and later Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group. Today, he is a prominent ZDI spokesperson, frequent conference speaker, and author of regular security update analysis covering Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Pwn2Own, and major vulnerability trends.

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