Taylor Banks is a Security Evangelist and Privacy Pundit with over 15 years in the Information Technology industry, the last 10 focused exclusively on Information Security and Privacy.

Taylor has delivered training and security consultation to thousands of security engineers, architects, managers and executives from hundreds of organizations including the DoD, FBI and the NSA. Previously, he worked as a consultant for Benedict College, the Environmental Policy Center at Georgia State University, Sodexho Marriott at the Georgia Institute of Technology and SunTrust Equitable Securities. In 2003, Taylor started the Atlanta Defcon Group, and in 2005 he founded kaos theory security research.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
  Alan Cohen

Beth Milliken, KnowThreat's Chief Security Ninja, has a background in Information Security with a focus on Fraud and Abuse. Having finely honed her skills providing these functions for MindSpring (and later, Earthlink), and before joining KnowThreat, Beth worked as Senior Security Researcher for Damballa, performing Botnet research and analysis. She is a founding member of both the Atlanta Defcon Group and kaos theory security research. In 2003, Beth was certified by ISECOM as an OSSTMM Professional Security Tester (OPST), and in 2004 received her CISSP.