Brent Cowing
Brent is the founder and CEO of Protectli, a trusted provider of small form factor computers used for firewalls, hypervisors, and everything in between. Brent has worked in technology for companies such as Cisco, Samsung, EMC, Dell, and Veritas before founding Protectli in 2017. He is passionate about open source and is dedicated to bringing open source firmware to small form factor hardware for use in mainstream and everyday applications.
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As the world is evermore consumed by detecting and preventing ransomware and other financially damaging attacks on systems and organizations, far too little attention has been paid to an attack surface common to every single vulnerability - firmware. It’s time for firmware to be open source and secure.