Jeremiah Talamantes

Jeremiah has been in the IT industry for nearly 25 years and is the creator of The PlugBot Research Project – a foray into the concept of a hardware botnet. He has a master’s degree in Information Security & Assurance and executive business education from the University of Notre Dame, Mendoza School of Business. Jeremiah is an active security researcher and an adjunct professor at Norwich University, College of Graduate Studies in Information Security & Assurance. He is the author of The Social Engineer’s Playbook: A Practical Guide to Pretexting and has appeared on the national TV news outlet, FOX News Live with Adam Housley. Additionally, he has been quoted and interviewed by CNN, Yahoo! Finance, Houston Chronicle, Rigzone, Business Insider, Tech Insider, CIO Magazine, PenTest Magazine, POWER Magazine, LegalNews, Finance & Commerce and others.

Jeremiah was an accepted speaker at Hack In The Box (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Defcon 19 (Las Vegas, NV), Cyber Storm III (Zürich, Switzerland), Hack in Paris (Paris, France), TakeDownCon (Dallas, TX), High Tech Crime Investigation Association International Expo 2015 (Orlando, FL), Hack In Miami 2015 (Miami, FL) and NolaCon 2015 (New Orleans, LA). He is a CISSP, CCISO, CEH, CHFI, CCENT and a pretty swell guy.

Ziara has obtained the following industry-leading qualifications; Evolve Security Certified Professional, and CompTIA Security+.