Tod Beardsley is the Security Research Manager at Rapid7. He has over twenty
years of hands-on security experience, reaching back to the halcyon days of
2400 baud textfile BBSes and in-band telephony switching. Since then, he has
held IT Ops and IT Security positions in large footprint organizations such as
3Com, Dell, and Westinghouse, as both an offensive and defensive practitioner.
Today, Tod speaks at security and developer conferences on open source
security software, managing the human "Layer 8" component of security, and
reasonable vulnerability disclosure handling. He can be contacted via the many
addresses listed at