Ted Demopoulos

Ted Demopoulos’ professional background includes well over 3 decades of experience in Information Security and Business, including over 30 years as an independent consultant. Each year he helps organizations make informed decisions through his seminars, keynotes, and consulting services. His clients have included Cisco, The SANS Institute, Hewlett Packard, IBM, The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club, Motorola, The Singapore Ministry of Education, The UK Post Office, T Rowe Price, TRW, and The Hong Kong Post.

Ted Demopoulos' first significant exposure to computers was in 1977 when he had unlimited access to his high school's PDP-11, and hacked at it incessantly. He consequently almost flunked out but learned he liked playing with computers a lot. His first entrepreneurial ventures began in college and have been continuous since.

His first professional computer work was in 1984 when he helped work his way through graduate school by programming. In 1986 Ted joined Apollo Computer where he worked with network administration, security, and user interfaces. He stayed a couple of years beyond the takeover by Hewlett-Packard, and then, in 1990, he founded Demopoulos Associates. He has been very fortunate since then to be able to work on a number of exciting projects worldwide. Along the way, Ted has also helped start a successful information security company, was the CTO at a "textbook failure" of a software startup, and has advised several startups.

He is a frequent speaker at conferences and other events, quoted often by the press, author of "Getting Started in Infosec Consulting", "Infosec Rock Star: How to Accelerate Your Career Because Geek Will Only Get You So Far" and two other books.