Ignacio Paredes is Industrial Cybersecurity Center Coordinator for the Middle East, Senior Lead Technologist in Booz Allen Hamilton and has a M.S. in Computer Science. Since 1999 he has been involved in different projects related to information security for important enterprises mainly from the telecommunications field. He is an expert in the design and deployment of technical and administrative security solutions, including topics such as applications security, secure network design, critical infrastructure protection, ethical hacking, business continuity planning, implementation of ISO/27001 based ISMSs and risk assessment and management.

Among others he holds the following professional certifications: ISACA: CRISC, CISM, CISA; (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP); PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), GIAC Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA); GIAC Assessing Wireless Networks (GAWN); BS 7799 Lead Auditor by BSI (British Standards Institution); EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CeH); Optenet Certified Systems Engineer (OCSE); Sun SCNA and Sun SCSA