About the Speaker
  • speaker photo
    Ian Sun
    Cybersecurity Researcher, Boston University

    Ian Sun is a computer science student at Boston University with a focus on cybersecurity, threat modeling, and human-layer defense. He holds ISC2 CC, CompTIA Network+, and Security+ certifications, and is pursuing the PNPT. Ian’s research includes cognitive vetting techniques to expose imposters in remote environments, and cultural blind spots like victim blaming in cybersecurity. He has experience in systems administration, phishing analysis, and adversarial narrative testing through internship work and self-directed research. Ian brings a student-practitioner lens to doctrine-first security, emphasizing low-cost, high-impact methods that raise workforce maturity without requiring expensive tooling.