Ahren is a Network Security Engineer and Physical Security Consultant who takes a broad view of security in order to aid customers in protecting their assets. Ahren believes strongly in personal development and employs this not only in continually advancing his own impressive skill set, but also in empowering others to do so as a founding officer of the nonprofit organization TechRamp and organizer of the BSides New Hampshire conference. Equally capable of configuring firewalls to secure a network’s edge, hacking into a web application, and picking complex locks, Ahren has trained with the CORE Group as a physical security specialist, is a Core Netwars Tournament champion, and has earned GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN), GIAC Python Coder (GPYC), GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT), GIAC Assessing and Auditing Wireless Networks (GAWN), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Network+, and Security+ certification.
Fun Fact: Ahren is an accomplished audiovisual engineer who earned an Audio and Media Technology degree from the New England Institute of Art and has lent his skills to projects in cinema, music, and live events.
