Ryan Wakeham has approximately ten years of computer security experience, seven of them with NetSPI. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Carleton College and an MS degree in Information Security from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Ryan leads NetSPI’s Assessment Team, which performs network and application penetration tests, code reviews, and infrastructure assessments. He also consults directly with clients on IT risk management and security program development projects. He brings to his work sound insight into security issues and the communication skills to effectively and thoroughly convey risks and recommended remedies to clients. Ryan Wakeham
December 12th, 2012
The Georgia Tech Information Security Center and Georgia Tech Research Institute recently released their 2013 report on emerging cyber threats. Some of these threats are fairly predictable, such as cloud-based botnets, vulnerabilities in mobile browsers and mobile wallets, and obfuscation of malware in order to avoid detection. However, some areas of focus were a bit more surprising, less in a revelatory sense and more simply because the report specifically called them out.
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