Ryan is an experienced IR practitioner, malware analyst, and trainer. He is a Principal IR Consultant for BlackBerry, the lead organizer of CactusCon, a SANS author and trainer, and a Pluralsight author. Ryan strives to imbue comedy into his training and loves being able to teach others while learning from them at the same time. He is a veteran speaker having presented talks and/or workshops at conferences including DefCon, SANS Summits, BSides events, CactusCon, and more. "We must not teach people how to press buttons to get results. We must teach people what happens when these buttons are clicked, such that they fully understand the processes occurring in the background," says Ryan.