Stephen A. Ridley

About Stephen A. Ridley

Stephen A. Ridley is a security researcher and author with more than 10 years of experience in software development, software security, and reverse engineering. Within that last few years, he has presented his research and spoken about reverse engineering and software security research on every continent except Antarctica. Stephen and his work have been featured on NPR and NBC and in Wired, Washington Post, Fast Company, VentureBeat, Slashdot, The Register, and other publications. Prior to his current work Mr. Ridley previously served as the Chief Information Security Officer of a financial services firm. Prior to that, various information security researcher/consultant roles including his role as a founding member of the Security and Mission Assurance (SMA) group at a major U.S defense contractor where he did vulnerability research and reverse engineering in support of the U.S. Defense and Intelligence community. Mr. Ridley calls Manhattan home and has guest lectured at NYU, Rensselaer PolyTechnic (RPI), Dartmouth, and other universities on subject of software exploitation and reverse engineering.

Experience

1. Professor

   Nyu Tandon School Of Engineering

   Dec 2019 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Adjunct Professor of Reverse Engineering & ExploitationI\'m honored to be teaching several new courses based on my custom developed curriculum for the NYU CSE graduate program. The first of these began with a course for the 2020 Spring semester entitled \"The Art Of Binary Exploitation: Mobile & Embedded Systems\". The NYU Tandon School of Engineering is a National Security Agency \"Cybersecurity Center of Excellence\".

Education

• Tennessee State University

  Physics

  2000 — 2003

Skills

• Cryptography
• Security Research
• X86 Assembly
• Digital Photography
• Java
• Ruby
• Arm Assembly
• Application Security
• Security
• Vulnerability Management
• Exploitation
• Software Engineering
• Security Audits
• Internet Security
• Information Security Management
• Penetration Testing
• C++
• Arm
• Compliance Audits
• C
• Software Development
• Python
• Malware Analysis
• Incident Response
• Information Security
• Data Security
• Web Application Security
• Pci Dss
• Pki
• Computer Security
• Intrusion Detection
• Embedded Systems
• Mobile Applications Development
• Hardware Reverse Engineering
• Network Security
• Security Architecture Design
• Quality Auditing
• Reverse Engineering
• Financial Regulation
• Software Reverse Engineering