About Nathan Cooprider
Nathan Cooprider is a Senior Software Engineer working on the Threat Stack instance agent. Nathan comes to Threat Stack from the endpoint engineering team of Bit9 + Carbon Black. Prior to Bit9, Nathan led the signal processing software team for the MQ9 Predator drone at BAE. He received his BS in CS from Brigham Young University and his PhD in CS from the University of Utah. Nathan has over a decade of experience working with computer systems. This includes eight refereed publications on the static analysis of microcontroller applications written in C. He also wrote a paper on multivariate data visualization, co-authored a paper on multiple hypothesis tracking, and has supported language modeling research. Nathan's accumulated experience with various software engineering languages and tools includes C, C++, python, doxygen, Jenkins, OCaml, CIL, cmake, and many others.
Nathan Cooprider's Latest Blogs
12 total posts.
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How to Cut Through Vendor Claims & Marketing Hype When Evaluating New Security Tools
February 28, 2019
As we’ve pointed out in a couple of recent blog posts, Machine Learning (ML) has been billed as a savior for short-staffed security teams — a ...
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How to Identify Threats Within Your Docker Containers
February 19, 2019
Now is a good time to review Threat Stack’s Docker integration in the wake of the recent runc CVE. The headline reporting gets a little hyperbolic, ...
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The Difference Between Security Trick Plays and Security Fundamentals
February 14, 2019
I like watching great football plays on YouTube, but I especially like watching trick plays where players sell some sort of deception so their ...
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Three Old-School Network Security Tips That (Still!) Work for Modern Infrastructure
November 20, 2018
The adage “Everything old is new again,” rings true in the cybersecurity industry as much as anywhere else. Some of the best practices from ...
6 Min Read
SLDC, SOC 2, and Other Four Letter Words
May 18, 2018
Developers gonna develop. That’s why we’re developers. We want to set some implementation goal and then make that a reality. We like to stay ...
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Eyes on the Ground: Why You Need Security Agents
April 28, 2017
A post based on the talk I just gave at SOURCE Boston 2017 If you answer Yes to one or more of the following questions, you probably have agent ...
6 Min Read
C++ in the Linux kernel
October 28, 2016
I've seen some crazy things. I've also done some crazy things. I’m going to tell you about one of them. A developer walks into a bar. He then ...
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How to Educate Yourself About Cloud Security
July 29, 2016
Given the constant changes affecting today’s security industry — whether it’s the explosion of big data, the global shift to cloud-based ...
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Changing Metaphors to Make Sense of Security in the Cloud
May 31, 2016
A couple of weeks ago I attended the SOURCE Conference in Boston and had the opportunity of sitting in on a number of insightful, stimulating — and ...
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Whitelisting is Dead, Long Live Whitelisting!
February 3, 2016
I believe in application control, often called application whitelisting. A lot of FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) gets spread about today's cyber ...
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Identifying Insider Threats Within Your Docker Containers
November 5, 2015
Docker. It’s a thing. A big thing. Actually, it’s a bunch of little things. Things called containers that like to pretend they’re running in ...
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Applying The Principles of The Quantified Self to Cloud Security
May 20, 2015
I like the ideas behind quantified self. This has not driven me to purchase an Apple Watch, but I am now on my second fitbit. I also ...