Taylor Banks

Taylor Banks spent over 20 years getting paid to hack into banks and government agencies and teaching hacking countermeasures to the Fortune 500 and the US Military. Now he help business owners hack their systems and processes to escalate their profits.

He has been working in information technology since 1992, focused on computer, network and information security since 1997. Since 2010, he's been using his background in technology and security to reverse engineer influence in order to rapidly grow technology businesses.

Banks earned his CISSP certification in 2002 and has provided training and consultation across the globe on Hacking and Countermeasures, Firewalls, Penetration Testing, Intrusion Detection, Incident Response, CISSP preparation, Enterprise Virtualization, Cloud Security and Business Growth Hacking.

He has consulted for hundreds of SMBs and enterprise organizations, as well as the National Weather Service and the United Nations, and has trained the US Air Force, Navy and Marines, as well as the Department of Defense, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency.

Banks started and organized the DC404 group from 2003 through 2013, and founded kaos.theory security research, creators of Anonym.OS. In 2011, he founded ACE Hackware, which now serves over 30,000 military, law enforcement, private security and retail customers from 50+ countries on all 7 continents.

Banks has sponsored and spoken or volunteered at DEF CON, Black Hat, ShmooCon, LayerOne, Innerz0ne, Outerz0ne, Cloud Security Alliance, DerbyCon, SkyDogCon and Security BSides (Las Vegas and Atlanta). He is available for speaking engagements on security, privacy, and technology.