Vinny Troia

Vincenzo Troia (born August 21, 1980) is an Italian-American cybersecurity speaker, author, and hacking investigative researcher based in St. Louis, Missouri.[2][3][4]

Vinny Troia
Born
Vincenzo Troia[1]

August 21, 1980 (1980-08-21) (age 39)
New Jersey, United States
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materCapella University (PhD)
OccupationHacking forensics investigator, cybersecurity speaker, author
Years active1997–present
OrganizationNight Lion Security
Spouse(s)Jessica Renee Troia
Websitevinnytroia.com

Early life and career

Troia earned a PhD in Information Security and Assurance from Capella University for his qualitative research study investigating "the perceived effectiveness of the CyberSecurity Framework among information security leaders".[5]

Musical career

Troia started his musical career in 2003. He has worked with numerous artists, including Jody Watley, Dave Audé, Gareth Emery and Ultra Naté.

In 2004, Corbett and Troia remixed Ultra Nate's Free on Curvve Recordings, which ranked #23 on the U.S. Billboard Dance charts.[6] In 2005, he was the Executive Producer for the official remixes of Looking for a New Love by American dance-pop singer Jody Watley. The song ranked No. 1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts.[7][8] In 2006, his musical release of Flow with vocalist Jaidene Veda and remix by Gareth Emery rose to #24 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play charts.[9]

In 2010, Troia and Jaidene Veda released their follow up record Do For Love with remix by Dave Audé, which climbed to #34 on Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.[10]

Computer security career

Troia is credited with the discovery of several major data breaches including a database containing personal information of approximately 230 million Americans and 110 million companies belonged to Exactis in June 2018,[11][12][13][14] and unprotected Google Cloud server of 4 terabytes of personal data belonged to People Data Labs in October 2019.[15][16][17][18]

Troia is the founder of Night Lion Security, a cybersecurity services firm.[19][20] Before founding Night Lion Security, Troia worked as a security consultant for 8 years with the US Department of Defense.[21] In 2017, Troia was hired by MGT Capital Investments to the Hacker Advisory Board, a cybersecurity company led by John McAfee.[22]

Publications
  • Hunting Cyber Criminals: A Hacker's Guide to Online Intelligence Gathering Tools and Techniques. Wiley Publishing. January 2020. P. 544. ISBN 1119540925.[2]
  • The Cybersecurity Framework as an Effective Information Security Baseline: A Qualitative Exploration. Troia, Vincenzo. Capella University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2018. 10933040.

References
  1. "The Cybersecurity Framework as an Effective Information Security Baseline: A Qualitative Exploration". ProQuest.
  2. Cimpanu, Catalin. "A hacker has wiped, defaced more than 15,000 Elasticsearch servers". ZDNet. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  3. "A billion people's data left unprotected on Google cloud server". Mint (newspaper). 2019-11-23. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  4. Mele, Christopher (2018-08-01). "Data Breaches Keep Happening. So Why Don't You Do Something?". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  5. "28th Annual Conference "Changes, Challenges, and Collaborations: Effective Cybersecurity Training"" (PDF). csrc.nist.gov.
  6. Inc, Nielsen Business Media (2004-10-23). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
  7. "Jody Watley". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  8. LLC, Beatport. "Looking For A New Love [Curvve]". Beatport. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  9. "Dance Club Songs Chart". Billboard (magazine). Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  10. Inc, Nielsen Business Media (2010-07-03). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
  11. Greenberg, Andy. "Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database With 340 Million Records". Wired. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  12. "Here's What It's Like to Accidentally Expose the Data of 230M People". Wired (magazine).
  13. Al-Heeti, Abrar. "Exactis said to have exposed 340 million records in massive leak". CNET. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  14. "Etats-Unis : les données de millions de personnes et d'entreprises ont fuité". Le Monde (in French). 2018-06-28. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  15. Newman, Lily. "1.2 Billion Records Found Exposed Online in a Single Server". Wired. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  16. Mehrotra, Kartikay. "A Billion People's Data Left Unprotected on Google Cloud Server". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  17. Aten, Jason (2019-11-25). "An Enormous Data Breach Left the Personal Information of Up to 1.2 Billion People Sitting Out in the Open". Inc. (magazine). Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  18. Mathews, Lee. "Florida Marketing Firm Leaks Data On 200 Million-plus Americans". Forbes.
  19. Zhong, Raymond (2019-07-02). "China Snares Tourists' Phones in Surveillance Dragnet by Adding Secret App". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  20. Paul, Kari. "What is Exactis—and how could it have leaked the data of nearly every American?". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  21. Taylor, Harriet (2016-07-06). "Why the State Department is so bad at security". CNBC. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  22. "MGT Hires Gary Miliefsky And Vinny Troia To Tactical Advisory Boards". Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
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