Who are the InGuardians?

Bob Hillery is an experienced consultant in Information Systems Security Management. He is a founder and Chief Research Officer with InGuardians, Inc. and has an extensive background in computer networks gained through the Navy and R&D labs. Bob has worked in National Institute of Justice projects and been a Senior researcher with the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College. He served as the Vice President of Academic Affairs & Chair of Information Systems Department for NH Community Technical College, and currently teaches National Security and Cyber-terrorism research courses at the Henry C. Lee College of Forensic Sciences at the University of New Haven. He has significant experience with both the management side and technical issues of security incident handling from his consulting practice. Bob’s professional certifications and affiliations include CISSP, GIAC, MCSE, ISSA and HTCIA.

Larry Pesce graduated with a Bachelor of Computer Information Systems in 2006, and has worked professionally as Senior Managing Security Analyst with InGuardians since 2013 and as the Director of Research since 2015. His history with hardware hacking began with the family TV when he was a kid, rebuilding it after it caught on fire. Both times. Later, as a web developer for a university in the early days of the Internet, he managed some of the first Layer 3 switched networks in the world. His core specialities include hardware and wireless hacking, architectural review, and traditional pentesting, often in the financial, energy and healthcare sectors. On the managerial side, he makes sure all the wheels are still on the ground, going over reports, and leading up research efforts, concentrating especially on IoT. He also regularly gives talks at DEF CON, ShmooCon, DerbyCon, and various BSides. Larry holds the GAWN, GCISP, GCIH, GCFA, and ITIL certifications, and has been a certified instructor with SANS for 5 years, where he trains the industry in advanced wireless and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) hacking. He’s also the co-author of multiple papers and books, including Linksys WRT54G Ultimate Hacking, Using Wireshark and Ethereal, and How to Cheat at Configuring Open Source Security Tools; and the technical editor of Wireless Reconnaissance for Penetration Testing, and The Blue Team Handbook: Incident Response Edition. In 2006, he co-founded the multiple international award-winning security podcast, “Paul’s Security Weekly”, which he continues to co-host. Alongside inspiring 150,000 downloads a month, Larry’s independent research for the show has led to interviews with the New York Times with MythBusters’ Adam Savage, hacking internet-connected marital aids on stage at DEFCON, and having his RFID implant cloned on stage at Shmoocon. When not hard at work, Larry enjoys long walks on the beach weighed down by his ham radio, (DE KB1TNF), and thinking of ways to survive the impending zombie apocalypse.

Jaime began her journey with InGuardians in 2011 as a Sales Associate, and is presently the Director of Sales. Jaime spends her days working closely with multiple clients from a variety of industries around the world, overseeing each step of the InGuardians’ sales process. Jaime’s greatest strengths are her creativity, her exceptional writing skills, and her unique ability to skillfully listen and interpret information in order to assist clients with meeting their security assessment needs. Jaime received her BA from Wells College, and her MA from UAB. In addition to her unhealthy obsession with Monchhichis, Jaime has two unwavering convictions: 1) There’s nothing like a good penetration test. 2) David Bowie will always rock!

A die hard Crimson Tide fan, James has been with the InGuardians Team for over four years. He assists with sales, including preparing legal documents and responding to RFPs. After hours he likes to unplug and enjoy time with his family.

Adam Crompton is a Senior Security Consultant with InGuardians where he specializes in penetration testing, research and development, and architecture reviews. He has spent a great deal of time within the networks of Insurance Companies performing penetration testing, vulnerability analysis, network device configuration and access reviews, data loss prevention, and software development. Adam has been a speaker at several security conferences and universities presenting on data exfiltration, antivirus evasion, and the honeypot tools he has developed. He is a graduate of The Ohio State University, with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.

Tyler Robinson started at InGuardians in 2015 as a Security Analyst/Penetration Tester after leaving another boutique penetration company, conducting custom blackbox penetration tests for government intelligence agencies, financial industry, and fortune 100 companies. Prior to that, he held several high profile positions as a security, system, and network administrator for local county government and law enforcement 911 networks. Specializing in Red Teaming, APT threat modeling, social engineering,IoT hardware hacking, and web application penetration testing,Tyler first got into hacking in the 90s, when he learned about phone phreaking, war dialing, and network infrastructures. Tyler received his Associates in Computer Science and Network Administration in 2006 and holds many industry recognized certifications including GIAC; GPEN, GCIH, GWAPT, GCWN, GSEC. He is currently on track for a GSE and has participated on the NIATEC and Pacific Rim CCDC Red Teams as an adversarial opponent. Tyler was also trained and mentored by an ex-NSA operator who taught him the tools, tactics and procedures used by NSA offensive teams, which he later helped teach in a “DarkSide Ops” course at Blackhat, both in the US and overseas. In his free time Tyler spends most of his time with his family in Idaho where he is restoring a 100+yr old church (the Church of T) that is also serves as his house. He also plays amateur divisional soccer, obsessively lifts weights, hunts, picks locks, and is in the process of building the next generation of in-memory malware for, *cough*pentesting.

Rob CurtinSeufert has spent years in and out of Bank and Credit Union networks. Rob has conducted network, wireless, and web application penetration tests against organizations ranging from 25 million to 10 billion in assets. He also works in incident response and social engineering, both on and off site. He once took over a county from his couch while still wearing his pajamas

Dan has officially been in the IT industry since 1995, although the DEC Rainbow in his childhood home might argue that the unofficial starting date is closer to 1984. Dan’s undergraduate degree in Creative Writing with a sub-specialty in Pre-Norman Conquest Anglo-Saxon Literature (Underwater Basket Weaving was full) amply prepared him for the start of his career as a COBOL and JCL developer. Dan then moved to web development in the very early days of the internet. His clients spanned a number of industries, including Telecommunications, Shipping, Financial Services and Travel. Dan anticipated the .com explosion and returned to school, where he received his MBA in 2003. Armed with a new suite of skills, Dan took on the role of senior-most IT executive at MedVance Institutes, a chain of medical-only vocational schools. After the sale of the company, Dan founded a consulting company specializing in audit support, custom reporting services and business-centric security offerings, which he ran until joining the InGuardians team. At InGuardians, Dan is responsible for ensuring that the teams are running smoothly, that the clients are getting useful information and that everything is following The Plan. Dan currently holds, or has held, numerous certifications from GIAC, including GSEC, GCIA, GCFA and GWAPT. Dan is currently a member of both the GIAC Advisory Board and Mentor programs. He is a member of ISACA and PMI. He is also a Langevin certified technical trainer. When not at work, Dan is a boardgame enthusiast and designer, a writer, and is hard at work perfecting his plan to take over the world.

 Faith Alderson works as a Security Analyst and Software Engineer with InGuardians, where she is learning the tricks of the trade, and advancing those tricks in new directions. Faith began her journey into technology with little more outside guidance than a Perl book from her father and a lesson on using Google. As a result, she learned how to quickly master new technologies as the needs arose. Her time spent writing Minecraft mods developed her ability to learn how to use something despite sparse documentation, a skill she now applies regularly to Linux man pages. Faith seeks to understand every facet of the systems she works with. She is a programming language polyglot, and has a vast amount of knowledge about everything from synthesizer hardware and microprocessors to high level functional programming abstractions. She has learned that once something is truly understood, it is trivially bent to serve one’s own purposes.