Alex Santiago Earns Certified Ethical Hacker Credential

Boston (1/25/2023) – AAFCPAs, a leading CPA and Consulting firm based in New England, is pleased to announce Alex Santiago, Senior Associate, Business Process & IT Consulting, has earned the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) credential, a preeminent designation for information security professionals awarded by the EC-Council. (The International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants).

Alex is a member of AAFCPAs’ Business Process & IT Consulting Practice, responsible for providing information risk management, cybersecurity, and special IT attestation solutions.

The CEH credential certifies Alex’s expertise in the latest commercial-grade hacking tools, techniques, and methodologies used by hackers and information security professionals to lawfully hack an organization. He can hack multiple operating systems and is skilled at reconnaissance, scanning, gaining access, maintaining access, and covering his tracks.

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AAFCPAs’ Information Technology (IT) Assessments help identify risks from the use of technology that could potentially cause information loss and/or financial and reputational harm to your organization. AAFCPAs also offers “Vulnerability Management as a Service” (VMaaS) to assist companies in identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities in their servers, software, workstations, phone systems, printers, and employee devices.

About the Author

Alex is a member of AAFCPAs’ Business Process & IT Consulting Practice, responsible for providing information risk management, cybersecurity, and special IT attestation solutions. As a key member of AAFCPAs’ IT Security team, Alex helps clients identify risks from the use of technology that could potentially cause information loss or financial or reputational harm. He performs vulnerability and penetration tests, phishing campaigns using social engineering, configuration assessments, and evaluates infrastructure operations & regulatory compliance. He assists AAFCPAs’ financial statement audit teams in executing IT General Controls Audits, including assessing software controls, physical hardware controls, computer operations controls, data security controls, controls over the systems implementation process, and administrative controls. He leverages the insight gained from these assessments to provide suggestions for system security, data privacy, or system integrations that enhance efficiency.