Shawn Merdinger is an independent security researcher based in the USA. In former corporate lives he worked with Cisco Systems'

STAT (Security Technologies Assessment Team) and TippingPoint. His current security interests include VoIP, medical devices and embedded systems. Merdinger is a technical editor for Cisco Press

and Pearson Publishing and has presented at security conferences such as ShmooCon, Hack-in-the-Box, OíReilly, CSI, NoConName, IT Underground, CONfidence and SecurityOpus.