Jake Valletta is a consultant at Mandiant in their New York office. His areas of interest include mobile security, application security, penetration testing, and incident response.

Mr. Valletta is a leader in the mobile security space at Mandiant. His responsibilities at Mandiant include research and development of Android sandboxing technologies, performing mobile application assessments, as well as building and maintaining Mandiant’s mobile application assessment methodologies. He has also performed incident response and forensic services for several fortune 500 and fortune 100 companies.

Mr. Valletta holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Information Security and Forensics from Rochester Institute of Technology. He has presented at the New York State Cyber Security Conference on covert communication channels and data exfiltration, OWASP, and Mandiant’s own MIRcon. In his free time, he maintains a website and blog dedicated to mobile security and research called “The Cobra Den.”