Rob Ragan is a Principal Technology Strategist at Bishop Fox. Rob focuses on pragmatic solutions for clients and technology. He oversees strategy for continuous security automation. Rob has presented at Black Hat, DEF CON, and RSA. He is also a contributing author to Hacking Exposed Web Applications 3rd Edition. His writing has appeared in Dark Reading and he has been quoted in publications such as Wired.
Rob has more than a decade of security experience and once worked as a Software Engineer at Hewlett-Packard's Application Security Center. Rob was also with SPI Dynamics where he was a software engineer on the dynamic analysis engine for WebInspect and the static analysis engine for DevInspect.
Rob holds a Bachelor of Science from Pennsylvania State University with a major in Information Sciences and Technology and a focus on System Development.
From Rob Ragan
Blog / Product
Most Security Programs Test a Fraction of Their Applications. That Changes Today.
Feb 09, 2026
Resource / Virtual Sessions
The Promise and Perils of AI: Navigating Emerging Cyber Threats - A Dark Reading Panel
Apr 16, 2025
Blog / Industry
The Promise and Perils of AI: Navigating Emerging Cyber Threats - A Dark Reading Panel
Apr 16, 2025
Event
Rob Ragan Spoke at Cybersecurity's Most Promising New and Emerging Technologies
March 20, 2025
Resource / Virtual Sessions
Achieving DORA Threat-Led Penetration Testing Requirements
Oct 07, 2024
Resource / Virtual Sessions
Testing LLM Algorithms While AI Tests Us
May 06, 2024
Event
Rob Ragan to Speak at BSides San Francisco
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Event
Bishop Fox Presents at HackGDL
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Event
Rob Ragan to Speak at Boston Security Meetup
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Event
Bishop Fox to Present at SecurityWeek's Cyber AI/Automation Summit
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Resource / Virtual Sessions
Pragmatic AI & LLM Security Mitigations for Enterprises
Oct 09, 2023
Resource / Virtual Sessions
Combatting Adversaries: Proactive Social Engineering & Network Testing
Sep 19, 2023
Resource / Virtual Sessions
Combatting Adversaries: Proactive Social Engineering & Network Testing
Jan 01, 2023
Resource / Workshops & Training
SmogCloud: Expose Yourself Without Insecurity - Cloud Breach Patterns
Aug 31, 2020
Resource / Workshops & Training
SmogCloud: Expose Yourself Without Insecurity - Cloud Breach Patterns
Aug 06, 2020
Event
Rob Ragan to Present at Black Hat 2020
Past Event
Resource / Virtual Sessions
Illumio Assessment Report: Interview with Raghu Nandakumara and Rob Ragan
Jun 04, 2020
Event
Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar Present at ACoD 2020
Past Event
Event
Rob Ragan and Gwen Castro to Sit on Panels at IG3 West
Past Event
Resource / Workshops & Training
Ghost In The Browser - Broad-Scale Espionage With Bitsquatting
Aug 06, 2019
Resource / Workshops & Training
Twist & Shout: Ferris Bueller's Guide to Abuse Domain Permutations
Mar 20, 2019
Event
BSides San Francisco - Twist & Shout: Ferris Bueller's Guide to Abuse Domain Permutations
Past Event
Resource / Workshops & Training
Pose a Threat: How Perceptual Analysis Helps Bug Hunters
Jan 31, 2019
