Mason Hemmel is a Security Consultant with the Cryptography Services division of NCC Group, a global information assurance specialist providing organizations with expert security consulting services. He has presented numerous trainings on applied cryptography both at Fortune 50 companies and at conferences such as Black Hat. He has been part of a number of public audits of open source projects, such as Cloudflare's TLS 1.3 implementation and Kolide's Updater. Prior to his time at NCC Group, Mason graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BS in Computer Science and an MS in Security Informatics.