Evan Francen
Founder And CCO (Chief Curiosity Officer) at FRSecure CISSP Mentor Program
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Francen is a veteran information security entrepreneur who founded FRSecure in 2008 and later launched SecurityStudio, creating industry-standard risk scoring products used by hundreds of organizations. With more than two decades of hands-on experience across enterprise roles at US Bank, UnitedHealth, Jasc, and MGI Pharma, he blends technical depth in assessments, incident response, and compliance with executive leadership and culture-building. He authored The Information Security Industry is Broken and has written 700+ articles, presented widely, and served as an expert in high-profile investigations and legal matters. Evan is the chief designer of the FISASCORE® and S2Score systems and runs mentor and training programs that develop hundreds of security professionals annually. Based in Puerto Vallarta, he pairs a pragmatic, measurement-driven approach to risk with a penchant for evangelizing accessible, business-aligned security.
3 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Geology, Geology at University of Minnesota
Spanish
Github Skills (14)
pentesting10
hacking10
scanner10
correlation10
penetration-testing10
scanning10
infosec10
information-gathering10
pentest9
security9
cybersecurity9
user-interface8
monitoring8
database8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
dontclickthelink/rengine
Feb 2023 - Apr 2023
reNgine is an automated reconnaissance framework for web applications with a focus on highly configurable streamlined recon process via Engines, recon data correlation and organization, continuous monitoring, backed by a database, and simple yet intuitive User Interface. reNgine makes it easy for penetration testers to gather reconnaissance with mi
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 month
yogeshojha/rengine
Feb 2023 - Apr 2023
reNgine is an automated reconnaissance framework for web applications with a focus on highly configurable streamlined recon process via Engines, recon data correlation and organization, continuous monitoring, backed by a database, and simple yet intuitive User Interface. reNgine makes it easy for penetration testers to gather reconnaissance with minimal configuration and with the help of reNgine's correlation, it just makes recon effortless.
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 1 month
bugbountytesterspentestintuitiverecon
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