All right, everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Crypto 101 podcast.

Pizza Mind here.

Bryce is out on assignment today, but that's okay.

We've got another Aaron with us here in the studio.

We're multiplying. We're taking over. I've got another Aaron with us here in the studio. We're multiplying.

We're taking over. I've got Aaron Lynch from Anchorage, the chief information security officer.

Aaron, welcome to the Crypto 101 podcast. Aaron, pizza mine, thank you so much. It's such a pleasure

to be here with y'all today. Is it just as weird for you to say your own name out loud as it is for me?

Yeah, it's not anything that I've ever really gotten used to, but thankfully, you know,

in a lot of the hacker communities and things like that, handles have, you know, taken that place in my heart.

Exactly. All right, cool. We're both on the same page as far as that goes, too. Let's talk

about your background a little bit, and then we're going to jump into what in the world is

Infosec. So before you arrived at Anchorage, what were you doing before? So I was working at a company

called ArcSan. ArSAN focused on mobile application

security primarily, where anti-tampering, anti-reverse engineering controls to ensure that people could

not mess with the apps that we use every single day.

A very, a very sort of low level approach.

That's sort of been the underlying theme to everywhere I've been in my career,

has been not just handling things at the application layer, but getting down into the cryptography,

getting down into, you know, down to the machine instructions,

down to the processor level, understanding how programs work, how data actually moves,

and then protecting it wherever it goes.

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