Ryan Linn

Ryan has more than 15 years of experience in Information Security. He has worked as a Technical Team Leader, Database Administrator, Windows and UNIX Systems administrator, Network Engineer, Web Application developer, Systems programmer, Information Security Engineer, and is currently a Managing Consultant doing network penetration testing.

Ryan has delivered his research about ATM security, network protocol attacks, and penetration testing tactics at numerous conferences, including Black Hat, DefCon, DerbyCon, and SecTor to name a few. He is also an open source project contributor for projects such as Metasploit, Ettercap, and the Browser Exploitation Framework.

He is a published author of the book Coding For Penetration Testers, is a contributing author to The Browser Hacker's Handbook, and is currently working on the next edition of Gray Hat Hacking. Ryan graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at North Carolina State University.

Ryan participates in Twitter as @sussurro, and invites you to follow him there. Or, you can find his blog at http://blog.happypacket.net