Andrew Chang-Gu
Andrew has been living on-chain since the "early days"—a journey that began with mining a million Dogecoin on his laptop. After founding a college crypto-investing group in 2013, he spent the next decade navigating the ecosystem as a smart contract developer and strategic investor.
Professionally, Andrew is a veteran of the traditional security world, having spent ten years as a global consultant securing multinational financial institutions across four continents. Now a Web3 security expert at Google Mandiant, he blends his "OG" intuition with enterprise-grade logic to protect the next generation of decentralized protocols from the hackers of today.
Session
Your smart contracts are audited, but is your contractor’s laptop? Most Web3 "hacks" aren't complex cryptographic exploits—they're basic Web2 security failures. From weak Discord credentials to unmanaged endpoints, many web3 companies have forgotten the web2 security fundamentals.
Join Andrew, a Mandiant/Google Cloud security expert with a decade of experience securing global financial giants, as he deconstructs the traditional attacks currently gutting the Web3 ecosystem. Learn why your "decentralized" future is failing at the basics, and how you can balance security and user privacy.