Bill Van Besien is a software engineer whose work has primarily been in the realm of spacecraft flight software architecture, UAV autonomy software, and cyber security pertaining to space mission operations. Over the past several years he has developed software and served on the mission operations team for several NASA space missions. He holds a MS and BS in computer science, with a focus in cryptography and computer security. Bill splits his time between the spacecraft flight software group at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab and Nextility, a solar energy start-up in Washington, DC. You can find more information about his projects on http://billvb.github.io.

Bob Perciaccante is a security consulting systems engineer for Cisco Systems, and has been in the field of information security for more than 20 years. He has experience in network and systems vulnerability assessment, enterprise monitoring and response, as well as network access control across many different industries, and focuses on active network and system security infrastructures that best help address dynamic security needs.

Antonio Rodríguez began his career on the information security field at a young age, learning about programming, networks, and electronics, and later he graduated in computer engineering.

With over 20 years of experience, he specializes in topics such as malware analysis, software reversing, and machine learning, and he conducts academic research about several security subjects.

He currently works at Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE) as a senior IT security researcher for its CERT team.

You can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/moebiuz.

Kumar Sumeet is pursuing his MSc in information security at Royal Holloway, University of London (UK). His research interest lies in system & software security, digital forensics and security testing. Before this, he graduated from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (India) in 2013 with a Bachelor of Technology degree in ICT.

During his bachelor's degree, he was a contributor to the Nmap Project and was speaker for talks organized by technology societies. After his undergraduate studies in 2013, he took a part-time job at TIFAC – DST (India) working as a network security research associate. At the same time, he did independent researches in information security, where he exploited vulnerabilities in IM services of Skype and Nimbuzz and wrote a paper on encrypted traffic classification based on application behavior.

For up-to-date information and details about his projects, visit his website at https://krsumeet.com

Marius Voila is a Linux system administrator with over 14 years of experience, and has lots of experience in DevOps. He has specialized in deployments, cloud computing, load balancing, scaling and performance tuning, as well as developing disaster-recovery best practices, such as backups and restorations, firewalls, and server-security audits.