John Strand is the owner of Black Hills Information Security, a penetration testing company based in South Dakota. He has done presentations for the FBI, NASA the NSA and various industry conferences. He is a senior teacher for the SANS institute, having taught over 10,000 people. He co-hosts Enterprise Security Weekly, part of the Security Weekly family of podcasts. In his free time he enjoys farming with his wife, mountain biking with his kids, singing loud rock music and making futile attempts at fly fishing.