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ORGANIZATION

DroneWarz is a non-profit organization that focuses on engaging the community with exciting games, contests, and events that will inspire and ignite an industry in flight . Our programs are designed primarily for research and education purposes with a focus on emerging UAV technologies. DroneWarz programs include outreach to both youth and adult cyber security and drone communities to raise awareness to these transformational and disruptive technologies and their overall safety and security potential. 


Let Your Imagination Take Flight!

LEADERSHIP

These are the dedicated people behind DroneWarz that volunteer their time to deliver remarkable outcomes for enthusiasts and the community. 

Erin Patrick Owens > DarkSkyz

Erin is the founder and CEO of DroneWarz. He is an industry cyber security expert with nearly 25 years of experience having served as a CISO for over 12 large US based firms. He is a long-time drone enthusiast and has been leading Robotics hacking and drone hacking programs at DefCon since DefCon24. He won coach of the year in Colorado in 2016 for his innovative contributions with First Robotics and continues to build programs that inspire others to engage technology in new ways. He has won multiple CTFs, discovered and researched some of the largest security flaws in history, led some of the largest fraud and breach investigations, and is very involved in the security community. He is considered an expert in cyber warfare False Flags and attribution fault analysis and is contributing to the ethical hacking community by taking our warez to the skyz (See the DroneWarz "Skyz" Payloadz and Project SkyJacker - the first wireless assault drone ever released). 

Justin Whitehead > H0m3l3ss H@ck3r

Justin is the CTO of DroneWarz. He is an industry cyber security expert and CEO of Digital Silence, a world-class provider of information security research and consulting services. Justin conducts manual external and internal penetration testing across a wide range of sectors (government, healthcare, financial, aerospace, etc.) to help clients validate compliance with internal policy and industry best practices. In his spare time, Justin leads the development of Skyz, the DroneWarz OS and flight controller for extended offensive and defensive cyber operations in Drones. His innovations with Raspberry Pi and Debian Lte have created the first ever open source drone and robotics platform (See the DroneWarz "Skyz" Payloadz and Project SkyJacker - the first wireless assault drone ever released). 

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