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Derek Chamorro

Derek Chamorro

Head of Security
Together AI
Derek is the Head of Security at Together.ai and the former Head of Infrastructure Security at Cloudflare. He has over 20 years of experience in designing security frameworks at scale. His main focus is on research and development within the fields of encryption and infrastructure security. He earned a master's in cybersecurity from Purdue University and now owns more than 50 global patents related to cryptography, key management, and distributed ledger technology.

Speaker sessions

Briefings and Arsenals | Confirmed Speakers | No Session Assigned

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  • 07:30
  • Tue
  • 01 Dec
Stage: Briefing Stage 2
Sessions Type: Keynote

It's Not the CPU's Fault: Adventures in GPU and Firmware Forensics

Traditional SIEM platforms excel at detecting network intrusions and OS-level threats, but they're fundamentally blind to attacks living in GPUs, BMCs, and out-of-band management planes. As AI/ML workloads scale, attackers increasingly exploit this hardware-layer blind spot to steal models, achieve persistent access via firmware implants, and maintain presence even after incident response. This talk treats GPU and BMC telemetry as first-class forensic data, not just performance metrics, and turns them into concrete detections that a SOC can deploy. We'll cover GPU telemetry (DCGM), BMC logs (IPMI/Redfish), out-of-band monitoring and show how to operationalize them at scale across multi-vendor environments. You'll see the challenges of integration (protocol chaos, network isolation, and data volume) and a three-layer reference architecture (Collection ? Normalization ? Correlation), along with ready-to-implement rules and a realistic roadmap from week-one ingestion to behavioral baselining. Hardware-layer persistence is real. Your SIEM doesn't see it, yet. Learn what you're missing and how to fix it.

  • 15:30
  • Thu
  • 03 Dec
Stage: Briefing Stage 1
Sessions Type: Keynote