Ben Hawkes

Strategic Advisor

Ben Hawkes is a strategic advisor to Asymmetric Research and founder of Isosceles, a security consulting company based in Del Mar, CA. Ben is a computer security expert with over 20 years of experience testing the security of operating systems, browsers, applications, and server software. At Google, Ben was the team lead and technical lead of Google's Project Zero security research team. In this role, he led a team of security engineers that identified and exploited vulnerabilities in some of the most widely used software in the world. He was also a technical lead on Google's Information Security Engineering (ISE) team where he was responsible for security reviews for Google's products, including reviews for Cloud, Search, YouTube, and Chrome.