Marcus Hodges

Marcus Hodges is a Security Partner at Meta where he supports Reality Labs and leads product security and architecture for Meta’s augmented reality (AR) glasses - silicon to cloud. Marcus is an accomplished security professional with over 15 years of experience building and breaking systems at every layer of the stack. He recently served on the Board of Directors of the ioXt Alliance where he established and chaired the IoT Privacy working group. Formerly, as the Director of Research and a Principal Security Engineer at Security Innovation, he designed and managed the development of a custom secure Linux distribution for the federal U.S. Judiciary. He has been an avid CTF player, hosted DEFCONs OpenCTF competition, and spoken at security conferences on topics including binary exploitation and the development of custom Linux rootkits. He has a comprehensive B.S. in mathematics from the University of Washington.