Nick Levay
Nick Levay, also known as Rattle, is an American computer security expert and hacker. He is the President of the NGO-ISAC and former Chief Security Officer at the Council on Foreign Relations and Carbon Black, a computer security company in the Boston area. From 2008 to 2013 he was Director of Technical Operations and Information Security at the Center for American Progress, a public policy research organization.
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Born | 1977 New Jersey |
Alma mater | Middle Tennessee State University |
Known for | MemeStreams |
Early career as Rattle
Rattle was the subject of a pioneering profile of hacker culture published in Nashville, Tennessee in 1999.[1]
In 2001, he and Tom Cross co-founded Industrial Memetics and built MemeStreams, a web log and early social networking web site.[2]
Rattle presented at PhreakNIC, an annual hacker and technology convention held in Nashville, in 2005 and 2011. His 2011 talk was on "Counter Espionage Strategy and Tactics".[3]
References
- Hanback, James (October 7, 1999) "Cyber Pirates: Nashville hackers say they are misunderstood". Nashville Scene
- "Executive Officers". Industrial Memetics. Retrieved 2013-08-08.
- "Counter Espionage Strategy and Tactics". Retrieved 2013-08-09.