Ralph Echemendia

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Ralph Echemendia is well known Information Security Expert, Ethical Hacker and Instructor who has been providing technical training to hundreds of professionals worldwide and has appeared on KTLA, CNN, FOX News and Animal Planet, as well as in the pages of USA Today and Forbes magazine to name a few.

He has been involved in the research, development and deployment of key security technologies currently powering some of the best known sites on the Internet. Echemendia is described by some of his students and colleagues as a security samurai whose experience began at the age of 14 with ham radio, phone phreaking and the old bulletin board systems.

His interest in technology eventually led to jobs in the computer industry. For over 13 years, he has conducted security "audits" and penetration tests and consulted for numerous organizations around the world, including the United Nations, Oracle, and various hospitals and financial institutions.

He recently left the position of Information Security Product Line Manager and Lead Instructor for the Intense School and is now working on several ventures including ExecSecure [1] which provides Executive Intelligence Briefings to the senior management community. He continues to teach Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing around the world.