
Nabil Hannan - I Can Teach Someone to Be Smart, but I Can't Teach Someone to Be Clever When It Comes to Training a Pentester; A Pentester Must Be the Latter
03/07/21 • 38 min
Our guest today is Nabil Hannan, who is a Managing Director at NetSPI. He leads the company’s consulting practice, focusing on helping clients solve their cyber security assessment, and threat & vulnerability management needs. He has over 13 years of experience in cyber security consulting from his tenure at Cigital/Synopsys Software Integrity Group. Nabil has also worked as a Product Manager at Research In Motion (now, of course, BlackBerry) and has managed several flagship initiatives and projects through the full software development life cycle. You must also check out Nabil's podcast - Agent of Influence.
This podcast is sponsored by the We Hack Purple Academy.
Links from the show:
- NetSPI
- Agent of Influence Podcast
- Nabil's Twitter Account
- Nabil's LinkedIn Account
- DarkReading Posts by Nabil
Nabil Hannan is interviewed by David Quisenberry and John L. Whiteman
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Our guest today is Nabil Hannan, who is a Managing Director at NetSPI. He leads the company’s consulting practice, focusing on helping clients solve their cyber security assessment, and threat & vulnerability management needs. He has over 13 years of experience in cyber security consulting from his tenure at Cigital/Synopsys Software Integrity Group. Nabil has also worked as a Product Manager at Research In Motion (now, of course, BlackBerry) and has managed several flagship initiatives and projects through the full software development life cycle. You must also check out Nabil's podcast - Agent of Influence.
This podcast is sponsored by the We Hack Purple Academy.
Links from the show:
- NetSPI
- Agent of Influence Podcast
- Nabil's Twitter Account
- Nabil's LinkedIn Account
- DarkReading Posts by Nabil
Nabil Hannan is interviewed by David Quisenberry and John L. Whiteman
Follow us:
Become an OWASP member
- Donate to our OWASP PDX chapter
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This podcast is sponsored by the We Hack Purple Academy.
Links from the show:
- John's Twitter Page
- John's LinkedIn Page
- Offensive Countermeasures: The Art of Active Defense (book)
- Black Hills Information Security
- Black Hills Information Security Podcast
- Active Countermeasures
- Backdoors and Breaches Game
- DaftHack's Twitter Page
- N0BANDW1DTH's Twitter Page
John Strand is interviewed by David Quisenberry and John L. Whiteman
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Our special guest today is Jonathan Badeen, He is one of the co-founders of Tinder and has been its Chief Strategy Officer since March 2016. He is a programmer, designer and inventor, including Tinder's famous #SwipeRight feature. His other work experiences include Cardify, Chegg Flashcards, Casting Networks' FastCapture & Match Made. He is also an actor with credits in Zombie Wars (2007), The Proposal (2008) and Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age (2018). And if that ain't enough ... Jonathan is also lifelong friends with our very own OWASP PDX Chapter President, David Quisenberry.
This podcast is sponsored by the We Hack Purple Academy.
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Jonathan Badeen is interviewed by David Quisenberry and John L. Whiteman.
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