qu0rum started life as a developer during the dot com boom and quickly realized that writing secure code is a lot harder than breaking other people’s code so he hooked up with a security consulting company and got into penetration testing back before that was a popular thing to do. 15 years later he has handed off the day-to-day pen testing responsibilities to a new generation of testers and spends most of his time working with clients’ executives, convincing them that they should have someone test their security and figuring out what their testing programs should look like, but he’s still breaking stuff and writing about it in a desperate attempt to save the world from its own horrible code.

As his straight-laced corporate alter-ego, qu0rum has presented at a number of information security conferences including Black Hat Briefings USA, RSA Conference, Infosec World, the ISSA Conference, Computerworld Expo, and at United States Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force meetings. His commentary has been featured in television and print information security news, including CBS Evening News, NBC News, CNN Money, USA Today, CSO Magazine, Secure Computing Magazine, Network Computing Magazine, and CRN.

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