Connor Laidlaw
$ Research Advisory Board
> Application Security Engineer
Connor Laidlaw is an application security engineer with a strong track record of anticipating how threat actors will attempt to abuse critical applications and engineering the defenses needed to keep them resilient. He has led efforts to integrate AI into traditionally time-consuming security workflows such as SAST and SCA, and has developed highly context-aware offensive security agents that surface subtle, real-world attack paths.
Connor has helped design the protections that keep applications online during Taylor Swift–scale launch events by proactively identifying sophisticated automation and botting strategies before they hit production. He has uncovered multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in major vendor platforms by reversing live traffic patterns that bot authors were abusing, and translated those insights into durable detection and mitigation controls for high-traffic, high-risk environments.