EXPERIENCE
Ben has been working in technology and development for over 20 years. He spent 13 years doing defense in the medical industry before moving over to offense. He uses his knowledge of defense to refine his offensive skills and then uses this knowledge to equip customers with a better understanding of defensive methodologies. Ben has dedicated himself to the security industry for the past 15 years. He speaks at several conferences each year across the US, and he has presented in Oslo, Norway. Ben is active in the security community by offering talks, training, and encouraging new people to get involved.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
GIAC Certified Penetration Tester
INDUSTRY CONTRIBUTIONS
- Released several open-source tools, including The PoshSec Framework, HoneyCreds, Not PowerShell (nps), and Orpheus
- Chief architect and developer on Impede Detection Platform
- Featured in the book Tribe of Hackers as one of 100 people who are making an impact in Information Securitys
- Primary Instructor for TrustedSec’s BlackHat USA Training Class, InfoSec World USA’s Training Class, and TrustedSec’s online training for Purple Teams and PowerShell for Offense and Defense
- Presenter at several industry events and conventions such as DerbyCon, THOTCON, BSides Chicago, BSides DFW, Texas Cyber Summit, GrrCON, BSides Detroit, Ohio Chapter of the ISSA, CactusCon, ShowMeCon, and more.
- Guest appearance on KMOV St. Louis
Featured Blogs And Resources
Discover the blogs, analysis, webinars, and podcasts by this team member.
Security Noise - Episode 6.12
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The Art of Bypassing Kerberoast Detections with Orpheus
Back in May of 2018, I wrote a blog post detailing the steps I took to detect Kerberoast (T1558.003) attacks. This research allowed us to help organizations…
Training Preview: Actionable Purple Teaming at Black Hat USA 2023
Get an exclusive sneak peek into TrustedSec’s upcoming training program at Black Hat USA 2023.
The Art of Detecting Kerberoast Attacks
As a former defender, there is a sense of “happiness” when I can put defenses in place that allow you to detect attacks and potential indicators of compromise…
New Tool Release: NPS_Payload
Over the past year, we have seen a lot of research come out which highlights several of Microsoft’s native binaries which can be leveraged by an attacker to…
Black Hat USA Training - Applied Threat Hunting and Detection Engineering
Registration is now open for our Black Hat training on August 3-6, 2024
DakotaCon 11 - Threat Hunting Workshop
TrustedSec’s Threat Hunting Workshop combines proprietary methods with traditional incident response investigative techniques for discovering compromises…
HARDCIDR
hardcidr is a Linux Bash script, but also functions under macOS.
RISINGSUN
This is a SUNBURST C2 decoder and Host ID encoder which can be used to attribute C2 domains to specific SolarWinds servers when network telemetry is…
HASH_PARSER
hash_parser is a tool that will export a rc file compatible with Metasploit. This is useful when compromising a separate domain and want to see if any of the…
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