BSides Atlanta 2025

Andrew “Andy” Green, Ph.D., is a cybersecurity professor at Kennesaw State University and one of the organizers behind BSides Atlanta. green teaches, researches, builds hands-on labs, and occasionally breaks things on purpose so students learn how not to.

green has spent nearly two decades bouncing between academia and the real world—consulting for small and mid-sized businesses, wrangling healthcare IT, and now herding undergrads and their malware into something resembling employability. green runs the ISA undergraduate program and advises KSU’s award-winning Offensive Security Research Club, which means lots of late nights, too much coffee, and the occasional “whoops, that was prod” story—purely hypothetically, of course.

green’s happy place is where policy, security, and practicality crash into each other at highway speeds. Expect opinions on coordinated disclosure, risk management that isn’t just spreadsheet cosplay, and classrooms where students ship real work instead of memorizing acronyms. When green isn’t grading or organizing BSides Atlanta, he’s enjoying cigars, bourbon, and the open road on his motorcycle. During the fall, you can almost certainly find him anywhere the University of Alabama football team is playing. Compliance is a floor, not a ceiling; patching is a love language; packet captures are therapy.

Bring questions, bring receipts, and bring your A-game—green certainly does. And remember: there’s never a wrong time to say “Roll Tide.”