Ryan O’Leary is the Vice President of the Threat Research Center at WhiteHat Security, the web application security specialist. Ryan joined WhiteHat Security as an ethical hacker in 2007 and has since developed a breadth of experience finding and exploiting web application vulnerabilities and configuring automated tools for testing. Ryan swiftly rose through the ranks to become the Senior Director of WhiteHat Security’s Threat Research Center in 2013 and Vice President in 2016. Reporting directly to CEO Craig Hinkley, Ryan now manages a team of over 130 security engineers, based in three locations over two continents and is responsible for overseeing the delivery of WhiteHat Sentinel, which services over 10,000 customer websites. Under Ryan’s leadership, the team has built a one-of-a-kind database that combines details of more than 26 million vulnerability patterns, with proprietary algorithms that assess threat level.
