Eric Escobar is a seasoned pentester and a Security Principal Consultant at Sophos. On a daily basis he attempts to compromise large enterprise networks to test their physical, human, network and wireless security. He has successfully compromised companies from all sectors of business including: Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Entertainment, Amusement Parks, Banking, Finance, Technology, Insurance, Retail, Food Distribution, Government, Education, Transportation, Energy and Industrial Manufacturing.

InkRF an licensed amateur extra ham radio operator, active with the Ham Radio Village as a board member, organizer for the HRV at DEF CON and other conferences, and is the lead VE for the DEF CON free license exams.

Licensed since 2019, InkRF is always excited to spread the good word of amateur radio - specifically at infosec conferences such as DEF CON.

Jon is the Cybersecurity Evangelist at VikingCloud with a true passion for information security. Jon is an amateur radio operator, lockpicker, phreaker, repairer of all things, and maker. As a result of his long-standing commitment to open source software, Jon has offered his expertise as a package manager for the Debian GNU/Linux OS distribution since 1998.

Chem Engineer, ex Navy Nuke and deep submersible pilot. Currently Director of planning for large Si wafer manufacturer.

Nate Moore, call sign N8MOR, is an active member of the Ham Radio Village. He serves on the club's board and has contributed to various club activities.

Professionally, Nate has over 25 years of experience in the Information Security field and holds multiple certifications. He has shared his expertise with the amateur radio community through presentations on cybersecurity as well as the amateur radio hobby.

Orv W6BI is a retired Linux system administrator, an ARRL Santa Barbara Section
Technical Specialist and the AREDN Project Manager.

He was first licensed as WN6WEY in 1967. He's been into digital ham radio all his life, starting with CW. He worked his way up through RTTY, PACTOR, packet radio and PSK31, and started messing around with ham radio networking in 2014. He helped deploy the initial ham radio network nodes and backbone buildout in Ventura County and western Los Angeles County.

He's also active in coordinating the build-out and maintenance of the wider Southern California ham radio network, which now spans from Paso Robles in central Calfornia south to the Mexican border and east to Las Vegas, comprising over 550 nodes, both hilltop and ground-level, including hospitals, PDs and EOCs.

He's given over 80 presentations about ham radio networking using AREDN software over the last ten years and mentored many hams worldwide on ham radio networking. He's active in AREDN groups in Facebook, Slack, Telegram, and Discord, and monitors the forums on the AREDN website.

I'm Steve Ball, KD5WGW. I love building antennas and being frustrated when they don't work. Ham radio has tons of fun rabbit holes to jump into and I am always finding something exciting to play with.

Jay Ferron N4gaa is a multi-certified Information Security Subject-Matter-Expert (SME) with more than 30 years of professional experience, including Security & Compliance, Integration and Transformation Initiatives, IS Management Process and Operational Metrics Definition and Documentation. Jay has written over 19 technical courses for Microsoft, Global Knowledge and others.