Shawn Merdinger is a security researcher with 15 years' information security and IT experience. He is founder of MedSec, a LinkedIn group focused on medical device security risks with over 500 members and has worked with Cisco Systems, TippingPoint, an academic medical center, and as a independent security researcher and consultant. He's served as technical editor for 12 security books from Cisco Press, Pearson, Syngress and Wiley. Shawn has presented original security research at DEFCON, DerbyCon, Educause, ShmooCon, CONfidence, NoConName, O’Reilly, IT Underground, InfraGard, ISSA, CarolinaCon and SecurityOpus. He holds a master's from the University of Texas at Austin and two bachelor's from the University of Connecticut.