Nicholas Percoco

Current

Senior Vice President, SpiderLabs at Trustwave

Past

Regional Consulting Manager at VeriSign
Consulting Manager at Exault
Senior Security Consultant at IBM Internet Security Systems

Security Consultant at Netrex
Consultant at Andersen Consulting

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Education

Illinois State University
Lake Park High School

Recommended

23 people have recommended Nicholas

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

Nicholas Percoco’s Summary

Nicholas is Senior Vice President of SpiderLabs at Trustwave. He has more than 14 years of information security experience. In his role at Trustwave, he leads SpiderLabs, the team that has performed more than 500 computer incident response and forensic investigations globally, thousands of penetration and application security tests for clients. Nicholas acts as the lead security adviser to many of Trustwave’s premier clients by assisting them in making strategic decisions around various security compliance regimes. In 2004, Nicholas drafted an application security framework that became known as the Payment Application Best Practices (PABP). In 2008, this framework was adopted as a global standard called Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS). As a speaker, he has provided unique insight around security breaches and trends to public (MRC, ETA, YSTS, DEFCON, SecTor, etc.) and private audiences throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Prior to Trustwave, Nicholas ran security consulting practices at both VeriSign and Internet Security Systems. Nicholas earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Illinois State University.

Nicholas Percoco’s Specialties:

Computer Forensic Investigations, Application Security, Penetration Testing, Malware Research, Information Security, Consulting Practice Management, Public Speaking, Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) Qualified Security Assessor (QSA), Payment Application Qualified Security Assessor (PA-QSA), Visa Qualified Incident Response Assessor (QIRA)

Nicholas Percoco’s Experience

Senior Vice President, SpiderLabs

Trustwave

(Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)

January 2003 — Present (7 years )
Regional Consulting Manager

VeriSign

(Public Company; VRSN; Computer & Network Security industry)

September 2001 — January 2003 (1 year 5 months)
Consulting Manager

Exault

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

June 2000 — September 2001 (1 year 4 months)
Senior Security Consultant

IBM Internet Security Systems

(Public Company; IBM; Computer & Network Security industry)

April 1999 — June 2000 (1 year 3 months)
Security Consultant

Netrex

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

November 1998 — April 1999 (6 months)
Consultant

Andersen Consulting

(Computer & Network Security industry)

May 1997 — November 1998 (1 year 7 months)

Nicholas Percoco’s Education

Illinois State University

BS , Computer Science , 1993 — 1997

Activities and Societies:

Marching Band, EFnet Operator (irc.ilstu.edu), DPMA/AITP
Lake Park High School

1989 — 1993

Activities and Societies:

Marching Band, Computer Club