John Nye is Vice President of Cybersecurity Strategy for CynergisTek and has spent the last decade working in Information Security, half that time working exclusively as a professional penetration tester. Besides testing and improving security, John has a passion for educating and informing the public. He accomplishes this by presenting regularly at industry conferences and groups (such as DEF CON, B-SidesLV, and will be speaking at HIMSS 2018). When he is not busy speaking he is writing blog posts for CynergisTek and industry publications. Nye’s specialties include social engineering, the human/computer interaction, wireless, web, and system penetration testing, user education, public speaking, information assurance, security auditing, writing, security research and analysis. Some of his industry certifications include CISSP, Licensed Penetration Tester (LPT) and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH).