Founder of the Mexican Organization of Ethical Hackers
León Area, Mexico
- Current
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- Founder and CEO at Organización Mexicana de Hackers Éticos
- Project Leader at OMST.org
- CISO at Ixaya
- Co-Founder at Ixaya
- Past
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- Security Testing Manager at Security Structures
- Security Testing Manager at Pounce Consulting
- Linux Administrator at Alheco
- Education
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- Linux Professional Institute
- LinuxWare
- Informatics Institute
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Héctor López’s Summary
I'm member of:
Information Security Audit and Control Association (ISACA)
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)
SANS Institute for GIAC Education
Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)
Association for Computing Machinery in the Special Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC)
Operations Security Professional’s Association (OPSEC)
Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG)
International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
I always do research, contribute to open source projects and read news about IT security.
Héctor López’s Specialties:
Security: TCP Spoofing, Denial of Service, Cracking Brute Forcing, SSL & OpenSSL, SQL Injection, Phishing, Session Hijacking, ARP Flooding, Privilege Escalation, ICMP Tunneling, Wardriving, Buffer Overflow Detection, OSSTMM Methodology, CobiT Methodology, BS 77-99, ISO-20000, ISO-27002, Honeypot Development, Cryptography, OS Hardening, Snort IDS, VPNs IPsec, Advanced Penetration Testing, Social Engineering, Fraud Detection and Ethical Hacking in general.
Héctor López’s Experience
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Founder and CEO
Organización Mexicana de Hackers Éticos
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Security and Investigations industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
The OMHE goal is to be an organization recognized at national level that impels and develops the information security science in México and promotes the education in the same one.
We also offer support to the Mexican companies and government who wants to get the perfect balance of security in their information. -
Project Leader
OMST.org
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2006 — Present (3 years )
OMST - Open Methodology for Security Testing , it's an effort in order to create a GPL methodology who helps the information security professionals in the security testing step.
My job it's to analyze the new comments off the community in order to maintain update the OMST. -
CISO
Ixaya
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)
Ixaya also offers solutions for enterprise and government.
I’m the Chief Information Security Officer so i’m the responsible of services such as:
Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Incident Response, ISO-27002 Certification, etc... -
Co-Founder
Ixaya
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Security and Investigations industry)
April 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)
Ixaya.com it's an organization dedicated to impulse the open source software.
We offer support to the people in the projects that are related to the open source software. -
Security Testing Manager
Security Structures
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Security and Investigations industry)
January 2007 — July 2007 (7 months)
I was the leader of security testing practice at Security Structures.
Also the chief in research and colaboration programs such as:
Contributions for nmap development, Metasploit project and the creation of managed security services center at León México. -
Security Testing Manager
Pounce Consulting
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
April 2006 — January 2007 (10 months)
Security Testing Manager - Leader of the SECTEST implementation practice.
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Linux Administrator
Alheco
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — March 2006 (1 year 3 months)
Working on the linux servers in order to make them security gateways for the organizations.
Using Astaro, Clarkconnect and Engarde distributions.
Héctor López’s Education
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Linux Professional Institute
Linux Certified System Administrator 2005 — 2005
This exam covers all the basics of the Linux administration.
- Activities and Societies:
- I took this exam on the Linux World Conference in the WTC of Mexico City
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LinuxWare
Red Hat 4 Linux Administration 2005 — 2005
Linux Services : SAMBA, SQUID, SENDMAIL, APACHE, OTHERS.
- Activities and Societies:
- www.linuxware.com.mx its a company that offer special training on GNU/Linux
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Informatics Institute
Certified Ethical Hacker 2004 — 2005
I can do penetration testing to ensure that all the security mechanisms are stable.
- Activities and Societies:
- Ec-council Offer the CEH- Certified Ethical Hacker certification.
Additional Information
Héctor López’s Websites:
Héctor López’s Interests:
new technology, information security, hacking, cracking, phone phreaking, hockey, movies.
Héctor López’s Groups:
Ixaya.com dedicated to Powering Open Source projects , LEUX.org " Organization that impulse the GNU/Linux OS on Mexico, Antihacking Training - Course to make real security testers on Mexico.
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Information Security Expert Center -
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Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) -
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Global Security Professional -
SecurityMetrics -
Security Bloggers Network -
OMHE
Héctor López’s Honors:
Columnist at www.enfoqueseguro.com ( News about IT Security )
Asterisk.Ixaya “Project Leader” = Free Asterisk Test Servers – http://asterisk.ixaya.com
Ixaya.com, People gratification to make a non-profit open source foundation
Assisted Event List:
Expo Linux 2005 , DF
CA Integrada de TI , Guadalajara
GeneXus , DF
Festival del Software Libre , Puerto Vallarta
Linux World , DF – Centro Banamex
VonIP , DF – Centro Banamex
Foro de Inovación 2006 - León Guanajuato
Foro de Testing del Estado de Guanajuato 2008
CISC 2008 - ITESM Guadalajara
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