I am currently a Red Teamer and Penetration Tester. I was always interested in the way things worked and started programming by learning to mod video games such as Counter-Strike: Source, Minecraft(alpha/beta), and little projects like San Andreas: Multiplayer. I’ve made multiple websites from frameworks like WordPress/Joomla and some that I have made completely from scratch with PHP or Flask. My interest in info sec and analysis began at my first job, a small town PC Repair store-front where the same viruses would be introduced to the public in waves. My first projects in malware analysis was looking at the commonalities in sites the viruses were downloaded from, how they replicated or maintained persistence. I was able to get to the point of manually removing most malware.
I slowly got into linux, Boot-2-Roots, Hack-this-site, OverTheWire and various other sites. I started college due to not being able to get past most HR Departments due to not having any formal training. I quickly joined a Cybersecurity Student Org called ‘NullTester’. Later that year we placed, first regionally, and third nationally in the DoD Cyber-Defense Competition. A few months after that I received an offer from a company.
I now hold multiple Sans(GIAC) certifications and continuing…
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