Rob Ragan is a Senior Security Associate at Stach & Liu, a specialized security consulting firm serving the Fortune 1000 and high-tech startups. We protect our clients from the bad guys by breaking-in and bending the rules before the hackers do. From critical infrastructure to credit cards, popular websites to mobile games, and flight navigation systems to frozen waffle factories, we're there.

Before joining Stach & Liu, Rob served as a Software Engineer with the Application Security Center team of Hewlett-Packard (formerly SPI Dynamics) where he developed automated web application security testing tools, performed penetration tests, and researched vulnerabi lity assessment and identification techniques. Rob has presented his research at leading conferences such as Black Hat, DEF CON, SummerCon, InfoSec World, HackCon, OuterZ0ne, and HackerHalted. He has published several white papers and is a contributing author to the Hacking Exposed: Web Applications 3rd edition. Twitter: @sweepthatleg Facebook: StachLiu