Ralph Echemendia has been involved in the research and development of internationally recognized courseware and certifications as well as key security technologies powering some of the most powerful e-commerce sites on the Internet. He often collaborates with other well-known industry professionals on many different areas of information security and has been a freelance technical editor for Pearson Education, EC Council, Jones & Bartlett and Cisco Press. Ralph has appeared on KTLA, CNN, Fox News, Animal Planet, USA Today, Forbes magazine and many other media outlets.
Ralph is working with award-winning Director Oliver Stone as technical supervisor and also responsible for digital security of the upcoming feature film titled "Snowden" as well as having worked with Mr. Stone on the 2012 Universal Pictures release "Savages." Ralph was also directly responsible for findings in Summit Entertainment's Twilight: Breaking Dawn investigation as along with many other high profile entertainment leaks. Ralph has been a speaker/panelist at the Tribeca Film Festival, LA Film Festival and Austin's SXSW. He has presented "Hacking Hollywood" for CAA, DEW Expo, Content Protection and Piracy Summit as well as the Anti-Piracy and Content Protection Summit, to name a few.
For over 20 years, he has written and delivered training on Hacking and other information security topics to the US Marines Corps, NASA, Army, Navy, SPAWAR, Bristol Meyer Squibb, Google, Oracle, AMEX, Boeing, Intel, Microsoft, Symantec and IBM. He has conducted secure infrastructure deployments, security audits and penetration tests, managed numerous technology teams and budgets, consulted for various hospitals and financial institutions, and multiple organizations around the world including the United Nations.
Recently, Ralph has joined forces with some Hollywood's most influential names to address operational security, intellectual property and piracy issues by working on cutting edge technology for consumer cyber security protection.
