Tribe of Hackers Security Leaders

42Stephen A. Ridley

“I've only learned recently that it has become really valuable for me to give myself time to allow the creative process to happen.”

Twitter: @s7ephen • Website: about.me/s7ephen

Stephen A. Ridley is a security researcher with more than 15 years of experience in software development, software security, and reverse engineering. Within the last few years, he has presented his research and spoken about reverse engineering and software security research on every continent except Antarctica. Stephen and his work have been featured on NPR and NBC and in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Wired, The Washington Post, Fast Company, VentureBeat, Slashdot, The Register, and other publications.

Stephen has authored a number of information security articles and cowritten several texts, the most recent of which is Android Hacker's Handbook, published by John Wiley & Sons. Stephen has guest lectured at NYU, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Dartmouth, and other universities on the subjects of software exploitation and reverse engineering.

In late 2019 Stephen became adjunct professor of Hardware & Software Exploitation at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering in New York, an NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations. Stephen has served on the programming/review committees of USENIX WOOT, Securing Smart Cities, BuildItSecure.ly, and others ...