About Secure Ideas


Denise Johnson

Denise Johnson has been a business and organizational powerhouse over the last fifteen years. Denise is able to be the voice of reason, balancing the security risks with the business needs. Her voice and guidance allows Secure Ideas to provide a significant benefit to their clients.


Kevin Johnson

Kevin Johnson is a security consultant with Secure Ideas. Kevin came to security from a development and system administration background. He has many years of experience performing security services for fortune 100 companies, and in his spare time he contributes to a large number of open source security projects. Kevin's involvement in open-source projects is spread across a number of projects and efforts. He is the founder of many different projects and has worked on others. He founded BASE, which is a Web front-end for Snort analysis. He also founded and continues to lead the SamuraiWTF live DVD. This is a live environment focused on Web penetration testing. He also founded Yokoso and Laudanum, which are focused on exploit delivery. Kevin is a senior instructor for SANS and the author of Security 542: Web Application Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking. He also presents at industry events, including DEFCON and ShmooCon, and for various organizations, like Infragard, ISACA, ISSA, and the University of Florida.


Chris Cuevas

Chris Cuevas is a senior security analyst with Secure Ideas, LLC. He has been involved in information security policy creation and enforcement since 2004. Starting in the trenches of website design and implementation, Chris moved up the ranks at the University of FL holding positions dealing with PC technology, programming, geospacial imaging, system administration, and landing in the Information Security Manager position for the Florida Center for Library Automation. With a specialization in Linux, Chris also holds many technical certifications including GCIH, GWAPT, and RHCE and is involved in the development of several open source security tools.


Tony DeLaGrange

Tony DeLaGrange is a Senior Security Analyst with Secure Ideas, bringing over twenty-five years of information technology experience in the healthcare and financial services industries. For over the past decade, Tony has focused on information security within a leading Fortune 50 financial institution, providing the design of security reference architecture, development of information security policies, standards, and baselines, as well as the assessment and testing of emerging technologies. His experience includes managing large networking and messaging environments, assessing controls and establishing security requirements for large technology project implementations, driving change through leading an information security center of excellence, and influencing key technology and business stakeholders at all levels. Most recently, Tony led a penetration team that augmented the IT Audit program, providing a threat-based perspective to the standard general controls audit review process. For many years, Tony has had a keen interest in mobile security, specifically with mobile devices within a corporate environment, and is currently focused on the development of open source mobile testing tools.

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