 For over twenty years Mark Abene has performed pioneering work in the information technology field, excelling as an information and network security guru. His professional experience is rooted in his hacker past of the 1980’s and early 1990’s, known the world over as “Phiber Optik” for his unmatched knowledge of telecommunications systems and packet switched networks. He was one of the first hackers to give lectures on security from the perspective of the intruder, as well as openly debate and defend the positive merits of ethical hacking as a beneficial tool to industry. Having long since made the successful transition to infosec consultant, his wide array of skills and unique perspective have kept him in high demand. His services have included tiger teams and penetration studies, on-site security assessments, secure cryptographic implementations, secure code reviews, security policy review and generation, systems and network architecture, systems administration and network management, custom software design and modification, reverse engineering, fraud investigation, forensics, security awareness training and lecturing around the world.
His clientele have included the following noteworthy corporations:
American Express, UBS, First USA, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Sun Microsystems, Motorola, Toshiba, Seagate, IBM, Transamerica Insurance Group, TIAA-CREF, Barnes Jewish Medical Center, Major League Baseball, Boy Scouts of America, IDT/Net2Phone, NTT DoCoMo, Omnipoint Communications (now T-Mobile), Cambridge Technology Partners, ADP, Bally Gaming, Sotheby’s, Sullivan and Cromwell, American Lawyer Media, Radical Media, Starmedia, and The SciFi Channel. |
