Kevin Johnson is the Chief Executive Officer of Secure Ideas and has a long history in the IT field including system administration, network architecture and application development. He has been involved in building incident response and forensic teams, architecting security solutions for large enterprises and penetration testing everything from government agencies to Fortune 100 companies. In addition, Kevin is a faculty member at IANS and was an instructor and author for the SANS Institute. Kevin is also very involved in the open source community. He runs a number of open source projects like SamuraiWTF, Laudanum, Yokoso, and a number of others.

Jason Gillam is Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Secure Ideas and an IANS faculty member. He has over 20 years of industry experience in enterprise software development, system architecture, and application security. Jason has spent most of his career in technical leadership roles ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies and has learned the business acumen necessary to advise everyone from developers to senior executives on security and architecture. Jason co-built and managed an award-winning application security design and testing program at one of the world’s largest financial institutions and has also provided numerous application security training and awareness briefings to large internal technical audiences and led the development of best practices code and documentation for the same.