Keynote Speakers

Johnny Long

Professional Hacker
Johnny spent his career breaking into the world’s most secure facilities as a professional hacker. His insight into the threats your clients face is first hand, and his recommendations come from real-world experience attacking and securing hundreds of Fortune 100 and Government networks and facilities.

Johnny is a professional hacker and security researcher by trade. Although the art of breaking into buildings and bypassing computer security sounds like the stuff of Hollywood movies, Johnny has made a career of just that. By wielding real world attacks against hundreds of Government and Fortune 100 companies, Johnny has uncovered and exploited security weaknesses in the world's most secure facilities and networks. 

Beyond the cloak-and-dagger world of emulated espionage.Johnny's role as a security researcher continually helps empower unique groups of the Internet's most elite "good guys".

Authur
Johnny’s writing, editing and collaboration efforts span a dozen book projects. He is described as “a great author who knows how to tell a story in a captivating way.” His Google Hacking for Penetration Testers and No-Tech Hacking books have become publisher and industry best-sellers and are described as “must-have, essential, scary reads” and “true eye-openers”. Personality
Johnny is very comfortable in mixed-media environments and has been referenced and featured in many media outlets including network and cable television (CNN, CNBC, CBS), newspapers (The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun), print magazines (PC World, Wired, Network World, New Scientist) online news outlets (ZDNet, The Register, Slashdot) and other alternate media outlets.

Charity Founder
Johnny is the founder of Hackers For Charity (www.hackersforcharity.org), an organization that seeks to connect the skills of the hacker community with charities like AOET (www.aoet.org) that need those skills. HFC seeks to empower the world’s most vulnerable citizens while providing positive outlets for hackers and providing them referrals to help secure work they are passionate about.

Matunda Nyanchama, Ph.D, CISSP

Matunda Nyanchama, Ph.D, CISSP has more than 14 years experience in IT and IT security, corporate, management and academia. He is currently a Principal Consultant & Director at Agano Consulting. He has previously worked in many capacities including Delivery Project Executive (DPE) and Senior Program Manager at IBM Global Services with responsibilities for service delivery for outsourced contracts; and National Delivery Manager of security, privacy and identity consulting.

Dr Nyanchama has designed and taught university courses in IT security, including in the Masters of Information Technology Security (MITS) program of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Ontario, Canada

Dr Nyanchama holds masters and doctoral degrees in computer science from the University of Western Ontario, Canada; and an undergraduate electrical engineering degree from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He is a certified information systems security professional (CISSP).

Matunda has presented and written on many subjects in security, including information security metrics, risk management and ethical hacking. Dr Nyanchama has published a number of security management papers, including co-authoring a chapter in the Information Security Management Handbook the reference guide for CISSP.

Matunda is also listed in the Who is Who in Black Canada, 2006 edition. He is an active member in the African Diaspora community and a featured speaker in a number of events. Matunda can be reached at mnyanchama@aganoconsulting.com