Francis Brown

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ABOUT FRANCIS BROWN

Francis Brown, CISA, CISSP, MCSE, is a Board Director & co-founder of Bishop Fox, the largest private professional services firm focused on offensive security testing. Since 2005, the firm has provided cybersecurity consulting services to the world\'s leading organizations — working with over 25% of the Fortune 100 — to help secure their products, applications, networks, and cloud resources with penetration testing and security assessments. Francis has presented his security research at leading conferences such as Black Hat USA, DEF CON, RSA, InfoSec World, ToorCon, and HackCon and has been cited in numerous industry and academic publications. Francis is the creator of the Tastic RFID Thief (which has appeared on “Mr. Robot”), the Danger Drone, and the SearchDiggity Project.At Bishop Fox, Francis focuses on innovation, driving cyber security research & development, evolving the capabilities of the assessment and penetration testing practice, and leading the thought leadership program. He also manages Bishop Fox’s 6sigma service quality program and runs internal practice development initiatives.Before founding Bishop Fox, Francis served as an IT Security Specialist with the Global Risk Assessment team of Honeywell International where he performed network and application penetration testing, product security evaluations, incident response, and risk assessments of critical infrastructure. Prior to that, Francis was a consultant with the Ernst & Young Advanced Security Centers (ASC) and conducted network, application, wireless, and remote access penetration tests for Fortune 500 clients.Francis holds a Bachelor of Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania with a major in Computer Science and Engineering and a minor in Psychology. While at Penn, Francis taught operating system implementation, C programming, and participated in DARPA-funded research into advanced intrusion prevention system techniques.