http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=163300 By Kelly Jackson Higgins Senior Editor Dark Reading September 9, 2008 Legendary hacker Marc Maiffret, who recently started a security venture after leaving eEye Digital Security, has shifted gears and merged his new firm with a more established one, DigiTrust Group, a company run by a friend he met back in high school. DigiTrust plans to soon roll out managed security services for small- to medium-sized firms. Maiffret, 27, last fall quietly left eEye, the company he founded at age 17, and during a sabbatical laid the groundwork for starting up Invenio Security, a boutique consulting firm that provided security consulting and training to medium to large businesses, as well as penetration testing, application security assessments incident response, malware analysis, and even personal security services for individuals. (See Maiffret Starts New Security Venture.) After recently moving from Orange County to Los Angeles for Invenio, Maiffret says he reconnected with Jason Lidow, a friend he met on the hacking scene back in the day, but who was not “up to no good like we all know I was for a couple of my teenage years,” Maiffret says. “I remember even when we first met he already wanted to start a security company and wouldn't put that at risk messing around like I did. It just took me longer to see clearly what I wanted to grow up and do, whereas I think he knew from the moment he got into learning security.” [...] __________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia! With a new triple-track conference featuring 4 keynote speakers and over 35 international experts, this is the largest network security event in Asia and the Middle East! http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2008kl/Received on Thu Sep 11 2008 - 03:05:19 PDT
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