Senior Threat Researcher

Brandon Dalton

Brandon is a passionate and driven threat researcher who champions macOS security at Red Canary. He has worked across government, academia, and the private industry on high-stakes research and software engineering projects. These experiences have propelled him onto Red Canary’s Threat Research team, where he works closely with industry partners to improve EDR telemetry resolution for macOS detections. Additionally, Brandon also leads several internal R&D projects to aid in these objectives, predominantly in Swift and Python.

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Finding and reporting a Gatekeeper bypass exploit with help from Mac Monitor

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Threat detection

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Threat detection

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Gatekeeping in macOS: Keeping adversaries off our Apples

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Threat detection

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Validate your defenses with Atomic Test Harnesses for Linux and macOS

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Validate your defenses with Atomic Test Harnesses for Linux and macOS

A bundle of nerves: Tweaking macOS security controls to thwart application bundle manipulation

August 9, 2022

Threat detection

A bundle of nerves: Tweaking macOS security controls to thwart application bundle manipulation

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