Nick Levay

Nick Levay, also known as Rattle, is an American computer security expert and hacker. He is the President of the NGO-ISAC and former Chief Security Officer at the Council on Foreign Relations and Carbon Black, a computer security company in the Boston area. From 2008 to 2013 he was Director of Technical Operations and Information Security at the Center for American Progress, a public policy research organization.

Early career as Rattle

Rattle was the subject of a pioneering profile of hacker culture published in Nashville, Tennessee in 1999.

In 2001, he and Tom Cross co-founded Industrial Memetics and built MemeStreams, a web log and early social networking web site.

Rattle presented at PhreakNIC, an annual hacker and technology convention held in Nashville, in 2005 and 2011. His 2011 talk was on "Counter Espionage Strategy and Tactics".