Bio

Georgia Weidman is a serial entrepreneur, penetration tester, security researcher, speaker, trainer, and author. Georgia is the author of Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking and a contributor to Tribe of Hackers series which collectively have launched the cybersecurity careers of thousands. Her work in the field of smartphone exploitation has been featured internationally in print and on television including ABC, BBC, Fox, NBC, and PBS. She has presented and trained around the world including venues such as Black Hat, DEF CON, NSA, Oxford, RSA, and West Point and has served as a subject matter expert with the CyberWatch Center's National Visiting Committee, the FTC’s Home Inspector IoT security challenge, and as a New America Cybersecurity Policy Fellow. Georgia founded Bulb Security LLC, a security consulting firm specializing in security assessments, penetration testing, security training, and research and development in mobile and IoT security. She was awarded a DARPA Cyber Fast Track grant to continue this work culminating in the release of the open-source project the Smartphone Pentest Framework. She founded Shevirah Inc. to create products for assessing and managing the risk of mobile and the Internet of Things and evaluating the effectiveness of mobile security solutions. Shevirah is a graduate of the Mach37 cybersecurity accelerator, and, through Mach37, Georgia has served as an advisor, mentor, and occasionally investor in the next generation of cybersecurity startups. She received the 2015 Women’s Society of CyberJutsu Pentest Ninja award, is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland Global Campus, and she holds a MS in computer science; U.S. Patents #10,432,656 and #11,089,044 which are foundational to simulated phishing; as well as CISSP, Pentest+, and OSCP certifications. Georgia is a software engineer on the security team at Aiven where, among other things, she works on security related code in the Aiven codebase and pentesting the Aiven products. Georgia has spoken and conducted cybersecurity training on 6 continents. Her speaking and training work has ranged from local security meetups such as OWASP and Security BSides conferences to the foremost cybersecurity events such as Blackhat, DEF CON, RSA, and ShmooCon to keynoting annual meetings hosted by CarbonBlack, Cisco, and Hacker One. Her primary research interest has been mobile and Internet of Things security, though she is now delving into the emerging realm of security for augmented reality, virtual reality, and the metaverse.