Sponsorships

$10,000 research fellowships for underrepresented talent

The Trail of Bits SummerCon Fellowship program is now accepting applications from emerging security researchers with excellent project ideas. Fellows will explore their research topics with our guidance and then present their findings at SummerCon 2019. We will be reserving at least 50% of our funding for marginalized, female-identifying, transgender, and non-binary candidates. If you’re […]

April means Infiltrate

Ryan Stortz
Break out your guayabera, it’s time for Infiltrate. Trail of Bits has attended every Infiltrate and has been a sponsor since 2015. The majority of the company will be in attendance this year (18 people!) and we’ll be swapping shirts and swag again. We’re looking forward to catching up with the latest research presented there […]

Come Find Us at O’Reilly Security

We’re putting our money where our mouth is again. In continued support for New York’s growing infosec community we’re excited to sponsor the upcoming O’Reilly Security Conference. We expect to be an outlier there: we’re the only sponsor that offers consulting and custom engineering rather than just off-the-shelf products. We see this conference as an […]

Let’s Encrypt the Internet

We’re excited to announce our financial support for Let’s Encrypt, the open, automated and free SSL Certificate Authority (CA) that went into public beta on December 3. With so much room for improvement in the CA space, Let’s Encrypt offers a refreshing, promising vision of encrypting the web. Expensive SSL certificates are holding back Internet […]

Why we give so much to CSAW

In just a couple of weeks, tens of thousands of students and professionals from all over the world will tune in to cheer on their favorite teams in six competitions. If you’ve been following our blog for some time, you’ll know just what we’re referring to: Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW), the nation’s largest student-run […]

Empire Hacking, a New Meetup in NYC

Today we are launching Empire Hacking, a bi-monthly meetup that focuses on pragmatic security research and new discoveries in attack and defense. Empire Hacking is technical. We aim to bridge the gap between weekend projects and funded research. There won’t be any product pitches here. Come prepared with your best ideas. Empire Hacking is exclusive. […]

Education Initiative Spotlight: Build it Break it

We’re proud to be a sponsor of the first Build it Break it programming contest, run by the University of Maryland (UMD) and supported by one of our own employees and PhD student at the university, Andrew Ruef. Build it Break it is a “flipped CTF” where contestants both implement secure software and identify vulnerabilities in […]