Panel Discussion - Join local industry practitioners as they discuss the best practices used in getting superior results from your Pen Testing. Also share your ideas on Dos and Dont's of Pen testing.

Moderator - Brian Ventura

Panelists - Alexie Kojenov, Ian Melven, Benny Zhao, and Scott Cutler

Alexei Kojenov is a Senior Application Security Consultant with years of prior software development experience. During his career with IBM, he gradually moved from writing code to breaking code. Since late 2016, Alexei has been working as a consultant at Aspect Security, helping businesses identify and fix vulnerabilities and design secure applications. Aspect Security was recently acquired by Ernst&Young and joined EY Advisory cybersecurity practice.

Ian Melven is Principal Security Engineer at New Relic. He has worked in security for almost 20 years, including roles at Mozilla, Adobe, McAfee and @stake.

Benny Zhao is a Security Engineer at Jive Software. His experience focuses on identifying code vulnerabilities and securing software by building tools to help automate security testing.

Scott Cutler has been interested in computer security since he was a kid, and started attending DefCon in 2004. He got his Computer Science degree from UC Irvine in 2009 while working for the on-campus residential network department for 4 years. After graduating he worked first as QA for a SAN NIC card manufacturer, then switched to essentially create their DevOps program from scratch. From these jobs he has gained a lot of experience with networking, build processes, Linux/Unix administration and scripting, and Python development. In 2012 Scott began working in the security field full time as a FIPS, Common Criteria, and PCI Open Protocol evaluator for InfoGard Laboratories (now UL Transaction Security). During this time he got his OSCP and a good understanding of federal security requirements, assessment processes, and documentation (ask him about NIST SPs!). In 2015 scott switched over to Aspect Security (now EY) to put his OSCP to good use and became a full-time application security engineer, doing pen-tests as well as developing both internal and external training.