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My name is Nolen Johnson, I am the Director of Hardware/OT Security at the cyber-security firm LevelBlue (formerly Aon Cyber Solutions, formerly Stroz Friedberg).

I developed methodologies, processes, offerings, marketing materials, sales battlecards, and many other components to launch the divisions, and currently lead the Product (Hardware/Firmware) and OT Security practices.

Previously, I spent 5 wonderful years at DirectDefense, Inc helping get the Connected Systems division off the ground. Connected Systems focused on hardware security, OT/SCADA/ICS environment security, and firmware security.

I am also one of the 9 Project Directors of the FOSS operating system LineageOS, a project whose goal is providing an open and extensible Android-based platform for a variety of mobile devices, and preventing e-waste by extending their lifespans.

I’m originally from Burnsville, MN, but currently live in Orlando, FL.

I am very passionate about hardware hacking, and security research on IoT and mobile devices. Sometimes cool things come out of my research, other times I just write up a narrative of the various things I tried on a device.

I will be posting 4 main types of content here:

• Vulnerabillity research and disclosure narratives with accompanying exploit releases
• Open ended research papers, usually vulnerability research that didn’t pan out
• My thoughts on, breakdowns of, and findings related to public exploits
• Random how-to’s/educational writeups

Contact me

Personal Email: johnsonnolen@gmail.com
Security Research Email: oddsolutionsfl@gmail.com
Work Email: nolen.johnson@levelblue.com
LinkedIn: nolenjohnson
Telegram: @npjohnson
Twitter: @nolenjohnson