EXPERIENCE
Aaron James is a Senior Security Consultant who began his career in the Information Security field in 2014. Before joining TrustedSec in 2019, Aaron oversaw vulnerability management and security metrics programs in university and medical center environments, followed by several years of penetration testing in a consultant role. Aaron brings to these roles the leadership, communication, and adaptability skills he developed over five combat rotations as an infantryman with the U.S. Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
- Bachelor of Science, Computing Security, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
PASSION FOR SECURITY
Aaron’s passion for security developed from a love of practical and technical disciplines, the pleasure of leveraging skill and experience to overcome challenges, and a desire to protect the vulnerable from harm.
Featured Blogs And Resources
Discover the blogs, analysis, webinars, and podcasts by this team member.
Intro to Web App Security Testing: Burp Suite Tips & Tricks
A brief list of useful things we wish we had known sooner Burp Suite Pro can be complicated and intimidating. Even after learning and becoming comfortable with…
Intro to Web App Security Testing: Logging
A Brief Look at Approaches to Logging and Pitfalls to Avoid TL;DR The Logger++ extension is a great tool for recording requests and responses across all of…
The Lost Underground
Join TrustedSec Principal Security Consultant Mike Felch for an eye-opening journey into the lost underground, where ingenuity, disobedience, and complexity…
TrustedSec Tech Brief - December 2024 Year-End Top 3 Roundup
We are rounding up our top Tech Brief stories of 2024! Director of Security Intelligence Carlos Perez goes over what we have seen the most of this year and his…
Security Noise - Episode 7.7
Amazing Stories in InfoSec
On-Demand BOF
From the team that brought you COFF Loader, CS-Situational-Awareness-BOF, CS-Remote-OPs-BOF, and numerous blogs on BOFs, we are excited to release our first…
BEC Basics: Your First Step to Thwarting Email Scams
Join Senior Security Consultant Steven Erwin and Security Consultant Caroline Fenstermacher as they cover the basics of BEC analysis, providing participants…
Discovering a Deserialization Vulnerability in LINQPad
Like most red teamers, I spend quite a lot of time looking for novel vulnerabilities that could be used for initial access or lateral movement. Recently, my…
A 5-Minute Guide to HTTP Response Codes
If you've done any network scanning or application testing, you've run into your fair share of HTTP response codes. If not, these codes will show up in most…
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