Cody Jackson is a military veteran and the founder of Socius Consulting, an IT and business management consulting company in San Antonio, Texas. He also works at CACI International as a constructive modeler. He has been involved in the tech industry since 1994. He worked at Gateway Computers as a lab technician prior to joining the Navy. He worked at ECPI University as a computer information systems adjunct professor. He is a self-taught Python programmer and the author of the book series Learning to Program Using Python.

Scott M. Thompson currently works for CACI, Inc. as an ICS/SCADA Security Engineer. He has worked with industrial control systems for over 26 years with the United States Navy. His Navy career included working as an electrician, a main propulsion assistant, and chief engineer of Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates. He was with United States Cyber Command before retiring from the Navy. He holds a master's degree in Cyber Forensics. He has worked with incident response, malware analysis, network penetration testing, mobile device forensics, Windows forensics, and Linux and Python.

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