Ethical Hacking and Hands On Security Training

Why train with people that know less than you? Why spend your time, money, and budget on a course where the instructor merely reads lines out of a "instructor's guide"? Why waste your time with an instructor that can offer no real-world insight, and gets confused when you ask a question that isn't in "the book"?

Institute has built its reputation on high caliber instructors. All of our instructors are required to:

Have deep real-world experience in the subject matter.
Be recognized as an industry expert by members of the field.
Have excellent, rare to find, communication and teaching skills.

Some of our instructor bios:

Dan Hestad
Senior Instructor

Dan is currently one of the Senior Instructors at Institute specializing in advanced technical training. He has an extensive background and interest in vulnerability research, secure coding, protocol analysis and cryptography. He also has experience in red team and deception operations, Information Operations and Information Warfare. Much of Dan's research remains classified. He has assisted several high profile cyber investigations including Solar Sunrise.

Prior to his current position, Dan spent over 10 years running SIGINT operations for the United States Navy; collecting network based intelligence on such targets as narcotics traffickers, nuclear proliferation operations and counterterrorism targets. He spent 4 years at the NSA (National Security Agency) conducting vulnerability research and supporting national cyber intelligence operations. Dan also served as the Director of Security at MFS Investment Management in Boston, MA.

Dan completed his graduate studies at the Naval Postgraduate School and did extensive research into computational trust models. He also studied and taught at the National Cryptologic School. Dan has spoken at such venues as RSA, Gartner, and CSI.

Jeremy Martin
Senior Instructor

Jeremy Martin is a Senior Security Researcher that has focused his work on Red Team penetration testing, Computer Forensics, and Cyber Warfare.  Starting his career in 1995 Mr. Martin has worked with fortune 200 companies and Federal Government agencies, receiving a number of awards for service.  Jeremy is a published author, teaches, and speaks at security conferences around the world.  Current projects include vulnerability analysis, threat profiling, exploitation automation, anti-forensics, and reverse engineering malware. 

Mr. Martin currently holds over 20 professional certifications including: CISSP-ISSAP/ISSMP, NSA-IAM/IEM, CEI-CHFI/CEH/CNDA/ECSA/LPT, IPTQ/IPTE, CASS, CHS-III, ACSA, Network+/A+

He is active in the Information Security/Assurance world and is the current President for the Open Information Systems Security Group (OISSG) while sitting on the Board of Directors for Denver’s Infragard chapter.  Jeremy is also an active member of the Business Espionage Controls & Countermeasures Association.