Clinton Mugge

Clinton is the President and co-founder of Symosis a pure play strategic security consulting firm focused on delivering best of breed security solutions to organizations. Imparting over a decade of pure security experience to the vision of C-Level Security, Clinton has brought industry experts together, focused on building effective security programs through a combination of assessment, architecture and training services.

Clinton was the Director of Consulting for Foundstone, building and delivering many of the professional service lines, establishing his practice area as a dominant force prior to McAfee's product acquisition. Clinton worked in Ernst & Young's security solutions practice balancing security and business needs while leading security assessments across multiple industries. Clinton's career began as a counterintelligence agent within the Department of the Army dealing with force protection, threat analysis of military operations, and performing classified investigation while stationed stateside and overseas.

Clinton earned his BS from Southern Illinois University and an MS from the University of Maryland. Clinton is a co-author for the Hack Notes book series, and contributed to Hacking Exposed, Windows XP Security, and Incident Response. He continues to work with a large number of published authors and chief security officers putting him in a strategic position to leverage the knowledge and resources of the industry.

Kartik Trivedi

Kartik Trivedi is a VP and co-founder of Symosis responsible for business development, client management and service delivery. Kartik has more than a decade of experience working in technology consulting and information security industry.

Kartik was formerly the Director at Accuvant, founding and growing the application security practice aggressively into most profitable business unit. He was responsible for creating and managing relationships with new and existing clients, structuring strategic proposals, negotiating master services agreements and closing sales transactions. Prior to Accuvant, Kartik was a managing consultant and lead instructor at Foundstone - a division of McAfee, Inc having joined the company in its startup days. He advised more than 30 Fortune 500 companies and growing businesses on security strategy and performed several security assessments, code reviews, penetration tests, threat analysis and policy gap reviews. Kartik instructed the Ultimate Hacking and secure software development classes andwas the recipient of the McAfee president's club award 2005 for exceptional performance. Prior to this, Kartik was a software development engineer.

Kartik has an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship and MS in Computer Science. He has CISSP, CISA and CISM certifications.