Nathan Sweaney is a Principal Security Consultant with Secure Ideas. He has a wide range of experience in networking, systems administration, and development spanning 2 decades in IT and more than half of that in information security. Nathan has a considerable amount of experience with point-of-sale environments and managing compliance regulations such as PCI. He excels at finding practical, operationally feasible approaches for businesses to mitigate threats and minimize compliance obligations such as HIPAA and PCI.

Nathan regularly conducts security training, both publicly and privately, including secure coding techniques, network and application penetration testing, and more. He has spoken at security events such as DEFCON, BSidesLV, ShowMeCon, and the FBI’s Information Warfare Summit, as well as a wide variety of industry-specific events. He’s one of the core organizers of BSidesOK and has served on the board of directors for ISSA Oklahoma, OWASP® Tulsa, and the Hackers of Oklahoma Enterprises Syndicate.

He has the CISSP and has previously held the GPEN, GWAPT, and GAWN certifications.