Masaki Kubo
Director, Cyber Threat Analysis Office サイバー脅威分析室 室長
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolMasaki Kubo is a cyber threat analysis leader with over 20 years’ experience in vulnerability research, secure coding advocacy, and IoT botnet/firmware analysis, now directing the Cyber Threat Analysis Office at NICT. He previously led vulnerability analysis and coordination at JPCERT/CC, authored and localized CERT secure coding standards, and trained more than 5,000 developers across Asia. His research blends darknet monitoring (NICTER), sinkholing C2 infrastructures, and internet-wide scanner analysis to track adversaries and surface zero-day vectors. Active on international stages like Black Hat and FIRST, he combines hands-on reverse engineering with strategic incident coordination and standards work. An intriguing cross-disciplinary detail: he holds an MA in electroacoustic music and early-career software engineering experience at Sony, reflecting a rare mix of technical rigor and creative thinking.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Electroacoustic Music, MA, Electroacoustic Music at Dartmouth CollegeBA, Environmental and Information Studies, BA, Environmental and Information Studies at Keio University
English
Github Skills (3)
apache-cordova6
vulnerability4
owasp2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
JPCERTCC/cordova
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Vulnerability Analysis of Hybrid Applications using Apache Cordova
Contributions:7 commits in 2 months
apache-cordovavulnerability
JPCERTCC/OWASPdocuments
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Japanese translation of OWASP documents
Contributions:13 commits in 13 days
owasp
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