Nick Popovich's passion is learning and exploring the offensive side of IT security. He works as a penetration tester, trying to raise the overall security posture of organizations through infrastructure security testing. Nick's mission is to help individuals and organizations involved with the defensive side of InfoSec understand the mechanics and methods of the attackers they defend against and to assist in realistically testing those defenses. He's a lifelong learner and loves finding new ways to get under the hood of systems and networks. He is a father of two and a husband to one.