Instructors

Jon is the Founder and Principle Consultant of Fundamental Security, a small consulting firm focused on penetration testing, incident response, and strategic security consulting.

He has worked in Information Technology since 2004, and has focused on Information Security since 2006.  Most recently, he was the Application Security Testing manager a Fortune 500 Financial Institution, and a Security Architect and Penetration Tester for a Fortune 500 retailer.  In all, he has performed security engineering, security architecture, incident response, and penetration testing in the government, retail, and finance.

Passionate about security and leadership, he loves trying to ignite those passions in other people. Jon is proud to have served in the Army Reserve for 11 years, where he became a Warrant Officer and served one tour in Afghanistan.  He currently maintains the GCIH, GPEN, GAWN, GMOB, CISSP, and Security+.

"I really appreciated Jon's way of teaching, insight and passion. It kept me interested each and every day and I kept looking forward to the next day. Keep up the excellent work!"  Homer Rodriguez, Idaho Department of Finance