After 16 years in offensive cybersecurity, presenting at Black Hat USA and becoming a Microsoft Most Valuable Researcher in 2025, Vaisha still felt like an impostor. So, he set himself the goal to become #1 on Microsoft’s Security Researcher leaderboard.
This is the tale of how he grinded long nights, exploring a mucky sea of attack surface consisting of AI-generated slop applications, undocumented API endpoints, and strange misconfigurations, all the while feeling like an adolescent swiping through short-form brainrot content. This is the tale of how he submitted more than two hundred vulnerabilities to Microsoft, crushed the competition, and needed rehab afterwards.
Join Vaisha in this session for a wild ride along the attack surface of Microsoft and discover the eerie parallel to challenges we are all currently facing.