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Georgia Weidman

Founder, Software Engineer in Security, Bulb Security, Shevirah, Aiven Oy

Georgia Weidman is a serial entrepreneur, pentester, researcher, speaker, trainer, and author. She is a member of the National CyberWatch Center's National Visiting Committee and an Adjunct Professor. She presents or conducts training around the world and is regularly featured internationally in media. She authored Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking. Georgia founded the security consulting firm Bulb Security and was awarded a DARPA Cyber Fast Track grant for her work in mobile device security culminating in the release of the Smartphone Pentest Framework. She founded Shevirah, a graduate of Virginia’s Mach37 cybersecurity accelerator, whose products assess and manage the risk of mobile devices in the enterprise. Georgia was the 2015 Women’s Society of CyberJutsu Pentest Ninja. She holds a MS in computer science; CISSP, Pentest+, and OSCP; and U.S. Patents #10,432,656 and #11,089,044 which are foundational to simulated phishing. Georgia is a software engineer in security at Aiven.