Francisco Alonso

Francisco Alonso. A.k.a. Reverse Skills. Security researcher from Spain, 26 years old. http://twitter.com/revskills reverseskills@gmail.com

Marco Balduzzi

Dr. Marco Balduzzi holds an MSc. in computer engineering from the University of Bergamo and a Ph.D. in applied computer security from Télécom ParisTech. He has been involved in IT-security for more then 8 years with international experiences in both industrial and academic fields. He worked as security consultant and engineer for different companies in Milan, Munich and Sophia-Antipolis, in south France, before joining the International Secure Systems Lab. He attended well-known and high-profile conferences all over like BlackHat, Hack in the Box and Owasp AppSec, and currently speaks five languages. Being a free software sympathizer, in the year 2K he co-founded the Bergamo Linux User Group and then the Laboratory of Applied Computing of his university. In former times he was also member of different Italian hacking groups and maintainer of several open-source projects.

Richard C. Batka

Richard C. Batka has held various management and engineering positions with Microsoft, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Symantec, Thomson Reuters, and JPMorgan Chase. He is devoted to the complex issues of enterprise strategy, application development, security, infrastructure, data management and regulatory compliance. A graduate of New York University (w/ honors) he holds numerous industry certifications. Mr. Batka can be reached at rbusa1@gmail.com.

Michel Barbeau

Michel Barbeau is a professor of Computer Science. He got a Bachelor, a Master’s and a Ph.D., in Computer Science, from Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada (’85), for undergraduate studies, and Universite de Montreal, Canada (’87 & ’91), for graduate studies. From ’91 to ’99, he was a professor at Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada. Since 2000, he works at Carleton University, Canada. He focuses his efforts on network and wireless security, vehicular communications, wireless access network management, ad hoc networks and RFID.

Nick Baronian

With a degree in Fine Arts, Nick currently works as a Senior Security Engineer for a large organization in the United States.  He mainly specializes in forensics but will dabble in the occasional penetration test whenever he can.  When not spending time with his family, Nick tries to stay active with many open source projects and security communities.

Jeremiah Brott

Jeremiah currently holds a lead role with Access2Networks Toronto as an Information Security Consultant. In addition to holding numerous certifications, Jeremiah is also the professor for Malicious Code – Design & Defense along with Ethical Hacking at Sheridan Institute for the Applied Information Sciences System Security degree program. Hacker’s do it with all sorts of characters… www.IHackedThisBox.com

Yury Chemerkin

Yury graduated at Russian State University for the Humanities (http://rggu.com/) in 2010. At present postgraduate at RSUH. Information Security Analyst since 2009 and currently working as mobile info security researcher in Moscow. He has scientific and applied interests in the sphere of forensics, cyber security, AR, perceptive reality, semantic networks, mobile security and cloud computing. He is researching BlackBerry Infrastructure and the effects of the trust bot-net & forensic techniques on human privacy. E-mail: yury.chemerkin@gmail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/yury.chemerkin
LinkedIn: http://ru.linkedin.com/pub/yury-chemerkin/2a/434/549

Dhawal Desai

He’s been in IT Security for almost 7 years now, working on web malware analysis and threat identification as a Chief Architect for development and implementation of solutions for organizations. Has also been working on mobile malwares for almost more than a year across various platforms.

Daniel Drozdzewski

Daniel Drozdzewski was born in Poland. First computer,bought in early 90’s with his older brother, was a Commodore64. Fascination with technology has led him to finishing technical college (electronics and computing), followed by 4 out of 5 years of Software Engineering MEng course at Wroclaw University of Technology. He transferred his studies to UK, where he finished Computing Science MSc course at Newcastle University. He then worked as R&D programmer for HP Labs, followed by Java developer role at Erudine, Java mobile and Android developer at Palringo and currently software developer at William Hill. He is also one of the founding fathers of Agile Yorkshire – grassroot geekery meetup focused on Agile and Lean techniques of software development and project management.

Julian Evans

Julian Evans is an internet security entrepreneur and Managing Director of education and awareness company ID Theft Protect (IDTP). IDTP leads the way in providing identity protection solutions to consumers and also works with large corporate companies on business strategy within the sector on a worldwide basis. Julian is a leading global information security and identity fraud expert who is referenced by many leading industry publications.

Abhijeet Hatekar

Abhijeet Hatekar works as a Security Analyst II in Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd. He is an author of open source VoIP security tools including OAT, VideoJak and XTest. Abhijeet enjoys Reversing Malwares, writing security tools in his free time. Currently he is focusing on writing IDS signatures and can be reached at Abhijeet@chackraview.net

Michael R. Heinzl

Michael R. Heinzl is engaged with it-security and related areas for some years, especially with penetration testing and reverse code engineering. Contact is possible through http://awesec.com or through the Austrian security website https://defense.at

Mervyn Heng

Mervyn Heng, CISSP, loves Information Security and Open Source. These interests are translated into his life in Singapore where he practises the 2 philosophies and attempts to transfer these passions to his friends through awareness. If you have any comments or queries, please contact him at commandrine@gmail.com.

Rich Hoggan

Rich Hoggan is currently pursuing a bachelors degree in Computer Science and plans on specializing in information and cyber security. In his spare time, Rich enjoys writing music, photography, and creating visual art with the Processing programming language.

Tim Kulp

Tim Kulp (CISSP, CEH) is an Information Security professional in Baltimore, MD. He specializes in secure software development and penetration testing web applications. In recent years Tim’s focus has been working with development teams on updating applications to utilize secure coding practices and studying the security impact of Social Media.

Nilesh Kumar

Nilesh Kumar is working as an Senior Engineer-Security Analyst with Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab, Bangalore, India. He is mainly focused on Application Security ranging from Code Review to Black Box Testing. Apart from that he shows interest in Network Security and Reverse Engineering.  Blog: nileshkumar83.blogspot.com

Ric Messier

Ric Messier is a security and networking professional who spent a lot of years working for large and small companies before starting up his own consulting business, WasHere Consulting (www.washere.com). Additionally, he teaches college at both the graduate and undergraduate level.

Wardell Motley Jr.

Wardell Motley is a Systems Administrator for a Large clothing Manufactures in Dallas Texas. He is a member of the ISSA and in his spare time works as freelance IT security researcher.

Rishi Narang

Rishi Narang is a Vulnerability R&D consultant working with Third Brigade Inc., a security software company specializing in host intrusion defense. Narang’s profile includes research on recent & zero day vulnerabilities, reverse engineering and IDS/IPS Signature Development. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, and has authored articles on recent advances in Information Security & Research. He has been a speaker in OWASP & private security trainings and can be reached through his personal blog Greyhat Insight (www.greyhat.in). The information and opinions expressed in this article are the personal opinions of Rishi Narang provided for informational purposes only.

Armando Romeo

Armando is the founder and lead author of eLearnSecurity. In his 15 years of experience in the field, Armando has been involved both in the research and in the solution development field for top level firms. He is a consultant and trainer and specializes in the Web Application Security field. Since the inception of the Hackers Center web portal at the age of 16, all the way to his current position as CEO of eLearnSecurity, his philosophy has always been: Learn. Practice. Share.

Craig Wright

Craig Wright (Charles Sturt University)is the VP of GICSR in Australia. He holds the GSE, GSE-Malware and GSECompliance certifications from GIAC. He is a perpetual student with numerous post graduate degrees including an LLM specializing in international commercial law and ecommerce law, a Masters Degree in mathematical statistics from Newcastle as well as working on his 4th IT focused Masters degree (Masters in System Development) from Charles Stuart University where he lectures subjects in a Masters degree in digital forensics. He is writing his second doctoral dissertationfor a PhD on the quantification of information system risk at CSU.

Rebecca Wynn

Rebecca Wynn, MBA, CISSP, LPT, CIWSA, NSA/CNSS NSTISSI 4011-4016 is a Senior Information Security Analyst with NCI Information Systems, Inc. She has been on the Editorial Advisory Board for Hakin9 magazine since 2008.