Marc Blanchou
About Marc Blanchou
Marc Blanchou is the Director of Information Security at Airbnb. Prior to Airbnb, Marc was the Director of Information Security at MZ (formerly Machine Zone, now part of AppLovin). At both Airbnb and MZ, Marc developed the security program and strategy to mitigate risk by growing and managing teams covering all aspects of security. Prior to MZ, Marc worked as a consultant for iSEC Partners (now NCC Group) and Accuvant LABS (now Optiv) where he led small to large teams on complex security assessments for fortune 500 companies and startups on a wide range of products. Marc is known for having disclosed a multitude of issues in high profile products, released whitepapers and published high-impact research mentioned in major media outlets worldwide and presented at international security conferences. For his latest research, Marc discovered critical flaws that affected over two billion devices on the major cellular platforms and networks, and that allowed to take control of devices remotely. Other research focused on compilers, operating systems and virtual machines, but also on browser-based botnets and how to audit enterprise class products on Android and iOS. Marc is the author of a number of tools, including Introspy-Android, an open-source tool used by security engineers in a number of companies to dynamically assess Android applications and help identifying vulnerabilities. Marc also authored and co-authored white papers on password managers and mobile security. For his Master's thesis, Marc developed a multi-platform flash file system in C which resulted in several commits to the Linux kernel and which was also accepted into the Microsoft BizSpark program.