Sailing the Edge with Fishers of Men:
Ethics of Pentesting as a Believer
HackFormers February Meeting with Kevin Johnson

CEO and Security Consultant at Secure Ideas, Senior Instructor with SANS

Updated Meeting Time for this Month: 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Abstract:
In this talk, Kevin Johnson of Secure Ideas will explore penetration testing and the related ethical aspects that go with it. He will use stories and real world examples of how ethical situations and concerns can be handled by pentesters in the right and ethical way.

Speaker Bio:

Kevin Johnson is a Senior Security Analyst with Secure Ideas. Kevin came to security from a development and system administration background. He has many years of experience performing security services for Fortune 100 companies, and in his spare time contributes to a large number of open source security projects. Kevin founded and leads the development on B.A.S.E. (the Basic Analysis and Security Engine) project. The BASE project is the most popular web interface for the Snort intrusion detection system. Kevin is an instructor for SANS, teaching both the Incident Handling and Hacker Techniques class and the Web Application Security class. He is also the course author for Security 542 Web Application Pen-Testing In-Depth. He has presented to many organizations, including Infragard, ISACA, ISSA and the University of Florida.

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