Jordan Ritter
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Jordan Ritter February 1, 1978 Northridge, California, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Lehigh University |
| Website | www |
Jordan Ritter (born February 1, 1978) is an American serial entrepreneur, software architect and angel investor.
Jordan Ritter was born in Northridge, California and grew up in Texas and Florida. Ritter skipped the 5th grade when he was 10, and later went on to graduate from the International Baccalaureate Program at Hillsborough High School. Ritter attended college at Lehigh University on scholarship, starting as a sophomore and pursuing a double-major in music and computer science. He dropped out in 1998, relocating to Boston, Massachusetts to begin his career in computer security.
Ritter started out in the computer security industry, working as a paid hacker for the Boston office of Israeli computer security company Netect. While his main focus was probing major software and online systems for vulnerabilities, he eventually turned his sights towards the company's own software HackerShield. This scrutiny quickly evolved into fixing code, leading code reviews and conducting formal security audits of the product. Together, these contributions plus a broad experience of other software architectures formed the basis of his career shift towards software engineering.
During his tenure, Ritter discovered and published several serious security vulnerabilities, including an anonymous, remote administrative privilege escalation in Washington University's FTP server. At the time, this affected approximately 80% of all computers on the Internet.
Early in 1999, Netect was purchased by BindView for approximately $35MM. Ritter was one of the key personnel retained in the acquisition, and was required to stay on for a period of time as part of the transaction.
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