Billy McCourt

Billy McCourt has a diverse work experience in the field of cybersecurity. Billy started their career at Sophos, where they worked as a Senior Virus Researcher for nearly a decade. Billy'sresponsibilities included reverse engineering malware, developing new detection techniques, and training junior analysts.

After Sophos, Billy joined BlackBerry as a Security Researcher. In this role, they performed security assessments of BlackBerry products, provided secure coding practice guidance, and conducted research on hardware and software hardening techniques. Billy worked in this role for six years.

Following their tenure at BlackBerry, Billy transitioned to BlackBerry QNX, where they held the position of Principal Security Researcher. As one of the founding members of the BlackBerry Jarvis team, their responsibilities included working with automotive and medical OEMs to identify security issues, providing technical expertise on customer calls, and developing low-level extraction techniques.

Most recently, Billy joined Cybellum as a Principal Security Researcher. Unfortunately, no specific information regarding their role and responsibilities at Cybellum is provided.

Billy McCourt attended Dubai College from 1991 to 1997. Billy then went on to study at the University of Reading from 1997 to 2001, but the specific degree and field of study are unknown. In terms of additional certifications, they obtained the QSTM certification from Tigerscheme in November 2016, and they also hold a CISSP certification from (ISC)², although the details regarding when they obtained it are not provided.