Roy Hills
Chairman at Intertek NTA
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarRoy Hills is a veteran cybersecurity entrepreneur and chairman with 24 years of experience building and scaling penetration testing services and security certification programs. He founded NTA Monitor in 1996—one of the UK’s earliest commercial penetration testing firms—and authored the original testing tools, several of which he released as GPL open source on GitHub. Roy played a formative role in national and international professionalisation of the industry as an early CESG CHECK participant, a CREST assessor and exam developer, and a volunteer CCP assessor for IISP. His background combines deep hands-on engineering from embedded avionics and early Internet infrastructure to managing global networks and security operations. Now at Intertek NTA he provides non-executive leadership and strategic guidance while continuing to champion open source and practitioner certification worldwide.
25 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (17)
scanner10
freebsd10
linux10
openbsd10
security10
solaris10
tcp10
libpcap10
macos10
arp10
netbsd10
sniffer5
pcap4
kernel4
packet-capture4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
royhills/ike-scan
Aug 2001 - Oct 2022
The IKE Scanner
Contributions:897 commits, 10 PRs, 37 pushes in 21 years 5 months
scannersecurityike
royhills/ipgen
May 2012 - Oct 2022
Generate list of IP addresses from a network specification
Contributions:36 commits, 15 pushes, 1 comment in 10 years 6 months
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