Nicholas Lamb (Blizzard Anti-Cheat) Interview

Nicholas Lamb is the Associate Director of Games Security Engineering at Blizzard. He leads the anti-cheat efforts across multiple products; his views are his own! More from ‪@UDGDC‬ : https://x.com/udgamedevclub 00:00 Introductions 03:48 Origin Story 09:32 Hardware and Kernel Security 13:53 Undergraduate and Graduate School 17:33 Career Path and Takeaways 37:54 Securing Live Service Titles 41:40 Filtering Reports 48:37 Kernel Level Anti-Cheat 58:50 Update Pacing 01:01:47 Linux Security Challenges 01:09:06 Automatic Detection 01:11:43 Cheat Creation 01:22:12 Smurfing 01:24:30 Custom Engine Security 01:29:00 Advice 01:39:15 Closing