Georgia Weidman

Serial entrepreneur, penetration tester, security researcher, speaker, trainer, and author

Georgia Weidman is a serial entrepreneur, penetration tester, security researcher, speaker, trainer, and author. She is a member of the CyberWatch Center's National Visiting Committee, on the board of advisors at Cybrary, and an Adjunct Professor at UMUC and Tulane University. She is a New America Cybersecurity Policy Fellow. She has presented or conducted training around the world and is regularly featured internationally in print and on television. 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 whose products assess and manage the risk of mobile devices in the enterprise and is a graduate of the Mach37 cybersecurity accelerator. She was the 2015 Women’s Society of CyberJutsu Pentest Ninja. She holds a MS in computer science and CISSP, CEH, and OSCP certifications.

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