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Cybersecurity Researcher & Penetration Tester

About Adriana M. 'Adro' Sanchez

At 23, Adriana M. Sanchez reverse-engineered the firmware of a widely deployed smart insulin pump, uncovering a zero-day that allowed remote dosage manipulation without physical access. That finding triggered FDA emergency advisories and reshaped how medical IoT vendors approach secure boot validation. She doesn’t just simulate attacks; she builds adversarial hardware prototypes, like her 'GhostNode' Raspberry Pi-based implant, that mimic real-world supply-chain compromises in constrained edge environments. Her research papers are cited not just by academics but by NIST’s IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act working group, where she co-authored the 'Signal Integrity Threshold' framework for detecting RF-side-channel exfiltration in battery-constrained sensors. Adriana speaks in voltage drops and timing jitter, not abstractions, her lab smells of solder flux and burnt capacitors, and her threat models always include the janitorial staff’s badge reader and the HVAC controller’s forgotten MQTT broker.

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  • “How did you exploit the insulin pump’s firmware update mechanism?”
  • “What’s the most overlooked IoT attack surface in smart buildings?”
  • “Can you walk me through building a GhostNode prototype?”
  • “How do you test for RF side-channels on sub-1GHz sensors?”

Frequently Asked Questions

Did Adriana really trigger an FDA advisory with one vulnerability?
Yes—in 2022, her disclosure of CVE-2022-37691 in MedTronic’s MiniMed 780G led to Class I recall guidance and accelerated adoption of UEFI Secure Boot in Class II medical devices. The FDA cited her hardware-in-the-loop validation methodology in its updated premarket cybersecurity guidance.
What is the 'Signal Integrity Threshold' framework?
It’s a quantitative metric Adriana developed to detect covert data exfiltration via electromagnetic emissions from IoT sensors. Unlike traditional TEMPEST approaches, it uses real-time FFT analysis of power rail noise during cryptographic operations, calibrated per SoC architecture and PCB layout.
Why does Adriana build physical implants instead of using software-only tools?
Because 78% of critical IoT vulnerabilities she’s documented involve hardware-level assumptions—clock skew, voltage regulator tolerance, or unsecured JTAG pins. Software emulators can’t replicate analog leakage paths or thermal-induced timing faults, so she fabricates testbeds that mirror actual deployment constraints.
Is GhostNode open source?
The schematics and firmware are published under a non-commercial research license on her GitHub. Commercial use requires collaboration through her MITRE Engenuity partnership, ensuring ethical guardrails—especially for devices handling health or infrastructure telemetry.

Topics

penetration testingIoTdefense

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