A pure play security company specializing in vulnerability research, assessments, and mitigation. Provided virtual CISO services for companies with existing security departments and end to end managed security services for companies without. Head of research and development for all zero day exploit initiatives. Handpicked, trained, and managed all attack team members deployed across California. Conducted risk analysis through penetration tests, profiling, and threat identification. Performed security modeling through the creation of policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines encompassing business continuity and disaster recovery.  Performed baselining and gap analysis on security infrastructures to verify regulatory compliance and/or deficiencies against industry standards (PCI DSS, NIST, ISO, DFARS). Implemented security solutions encompassing system hardening, scanning, tiered DMZ, VLANs, monitoring and logging, intrusion detection, firewalls, antivirus and patch management.