Loading…
avatar for Ralph Durkee

Ralph Durkee

Durkee Consulting, Inc.
Principal Security Consultant
Rochester, NY
Ralph Durkee is the principal security consultant and president of Durkee Consulting, Inc since 1996. Ralph founded the OWASP Rochester, NY chapter and has served on the board since 2004. Ralph served on the ISSA chapter board to start the Rochester ISSA chapter as well as starting the annual Rochester Security Summit. He has served as the ISSA chapter president since 2010. He performs a variety of network and application penetration tests, software security assessments and secure software development consultations for clients. His expertise in penetration testing, incident handling, secure software development and secure Internet and web applications is based on over 30 years of both hands-on and technical training experience. He has developed and taught a wide variety of professional security seminars including custom web application security training, and SANS SEC401 & SEC504 - Hacker Techniques and Incident Handling and CISSP bootcamp courses since 2004. Ralph also regularly consults on the development and implementation of a wide variety of security standards such as web application security, database encryption, Windows, and Linux security. Ralph also has done security consulting for compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, and holds the following certifications CISSP, C|EH, CRISC, GSEC, GCIH, GSNA, GCIA, and GPEN.