Nicholas Cerne is a Security Consultant III at Bishop Fox, specializing in application penetration testing, hybrid application assessments, and cloud environment testing. He also enjoys conducting IoT security research as a hobby. Nicholas holds the Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE), and Security+ certifications.

He graduated with a B.S. in Cybersecurity from Virginia Tech, where he formerly served as president of the university's Cybersecurity Club.