Asuka Nakajima | Cyber Security Researcher
About me
Asuka Nakajima is a cyber security resercher and engineer based in Tokyo, Japan. With over a decade of experience in computer security, her expertise includes software security, reverse engineering, and cyber security research and development. She has presented at numerous security conferences and events, such as Black Hat USA/Europe/Asia Briefings, AsiaCCS, ROOTCON, AIS3, and PHDays, and serves on the Review Board for Black Hat USA and Asia.
In addition, Asuka is the founder and leader of CTF for GIRLS, the first infosec community for women in Japan, and also the author of the best-selling book "Cyber Attack" (Bluebacks, 2018) Currently, she works as a security research engineer at Elastic Security, focusing on endpoint security R&D
- (2019) 平成31年 サイバーセキュリティに関する総務大臣奨励賞 個人最年少受賞
- (2019) 第十五回 情報セキュリティ文化賞 個人最年少受賞
Videos
News
Black Hat Asia LockNote
[2020 Oct.02]Invited as a panelist of the BlackHat Asia 2020 Day 2 LockNote session.
Black Hat Asia 2020 Review Board
[2020 Sep.29 - Oct.02] Served as a Black Hat Asia 2020 Regional Review Board
USENIX WOOT PC
[2020 Aug.11] Served as a program committee member for the 14th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '20)
4-Girls CTF
[2019 Dec.07] Held a female only CTF "4-Girls CTF" in Tokyo
News
[2019 Dec.05] My research was featured in the Linux Magazine.
BlackHat Europe 2019
[2019 Dec.05] Presented at BlackHatEurope 2019. Title:OEM Finder: Hunting Vulnerable OEM IoT Devices at Scale
ROOTCON 13
[2019 Sep.26] Presented at ROOTCON 13. Tile:Pilot Study on Semi-Automated Patch Diffing by Applying Machine-Learning Techniques
News
[2019 Aug.23] Got interviewed from The Diplomat
BlackHat USA 2019
[2019 Aug.08] Presented at BlackHatUSA 2019. Title: Women in Security: Building a Female InfoSec Community in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan
ACM Asia CCS 2019
[2019 Jul.10] Presented at ACM Asia CCS 2019. Papertitle: A Pilot Study on Consumer IoT Device Vulnerability Disclosure and Patch Release in Japan and the United States
Software Design
[2019 Apr.18] Started a new series about CTF for the monthly magazine called Software Design
Microsoft Blue Hat Shangai 2019 Content Advisory Board
[2019 May.29-30] Served as a Microsoft Blue Hat Shangai 2019 Content Advisory Board
Black Hat Asia 2019 Review Board
[2019 Mar.26-29] Served as a Black Hat Asia 2019 Regional Review Board
Award
[2019 Feb.21] Received "Cybersecurity Encouragement Prizes" from The Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
Award
[2019 Feb.12] Received 15th Information Security Culture Award
News
[2019 Jan.06] Got interviewed from The Yomiuri Shimbun (Newspaper)
AIS3
[2018 Jul.30-Aug.01] Gave an Advanced Reverse Engineering Lecture at Advanced Information Security Summer School(AIS3) in Taiwan
News
[2018 Feb.25] Joined a Three‐Man Talk at the Federation of Economic Organizations
Black Hat Asia 2018 Review Board
[2018 Mar.20-23] Served as a Black Hat Asia Regional Review Board
Book
[2018 Jan.17] Published my first book called "Cyber Attack", which focused on software vulnerabilities
GHOST IN THE SHELL CTF
[2017 Nov.10] CTF for GIRLS jointly held international female-only CTF with "GHOST IN THE SHELL REALIZE PROJECT" at the CODEBLUE 2017
CTF for School GIRLS
[2017 Aug.19] CTF for GIRLS held a CTF workshop for female students in Tokyo
Dagstuhl Seminar
[2017 Jul.13] Gave a Talk Related to the Following Topic. "Malware Analysis: From Large-Scale Data Triage to Targeted Attack Recognition"
Award
[2017 Jun.30] Received Young Researcher Award from Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, and Mobile Symposium (DICOMO)
AIS3
[2016 Aug.23-25] Gave an Advanced Reverse Engineering Lecture at Advanced Information Security Summer School(AIS3) in Taiwan
Positive Hack Days VI
[2016 May.18] Presented Following Research. Tile:"If You Find One, There are Probably More! A Detection Method of “Reproduced” Vulnerability"