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Hans Lakhan

Principal Security Consultant

EXPERIENCE
With over a decade of industry experience, Hans Lakhan has worked in both offensive and defensive roles. Before switching to red teaming, he spent 5 years working as a technical Security Analyst for a Fortune 500 telecommunications company, specializing in networking, firewalls, vulnerability management, and VPNs.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

  • B.S. Bio-Medical Information Systems, University of Minnesota
  • Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Hans occasionally presents at various conferences (Blackhat, DerbyCon) and contributes to several open source projects.

PASSION FOR SECURITY
While Hans enjoys tackling complex security challenges, his true passion stems from tearing apart systems (physical, digital, process flows, and more), in which the goal is to identify weaknesses and present remediation solutions.

Featured Blogs And Resources

Discover the blogs, analysis, webinars, and podcasts by this team member.

Blog January 25 2022

Recovering Randomly Generated Passwords

TrustedSec recovers 50-70% of randomly generated passwords by using hashcat mask files like masks_10.hcmask, reducing the need for brute-force attacks.

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Blog February 02 2021

Injecting Rogue DNS Records Using DHCP

Understanding DHCP to Inject Rogue DNS Records via Spoofed MAC Addresses.

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Blog September 23 2020

Azure Account Hijacking using mimikatz’s lsadump::setntlm

Senior security researcher Carlos Perez reveals a hybrid Office 365 attack method using Mimikatz to gain domain admin access and hijack user accounts,…

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Webinars June 17 2020

Password Recovery 101: Cracking More of Your List

Join VP of Consulting Services Martin Bos, Paul Burkeland, and Hans Lakhan for a webinar on password recovery tools and techniques, and gain an analytical…

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Events TrustedSec HQ | October 28 2025

ISC2 Cleveland Chapter Member Meeting - October 2025

ISC2 Cleveland Chapter October MeetupCome join us for our meetup! The ISC2 Cleveland Chapter is hosting an exciting in-person event for all cybersecurity…

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Events Lake Buena Vista, FL | October 27 2025

InfoSecWorld 2025

TrustedSec is proud to sponsor and hold a workshop at this year's InfoSec World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Make sure to visit our booth if you'll be there!

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Training Resources October 25 2025

InfoSec World Workshop - Adversary Tactics and Threat Hunting

This immersive workshop will train you to simulate attacks, hunt threats, and build detections using manual, automated, and AI-driven methods across network…

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Podcasts October 24 2025

Security Noise - CON Men: Wild West Hackin' Fest + GrrCON

On this episode of Security Noise, we are discussing two of our favorite cybersecurity conferences Wild West Hackin' Fest and GrrCON! Our team presented at…

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Events October 23 2025

Discord Livestream - Titanis Tool Demo

Join us on Discord for a tool demo of Titanis! Titanis is a library of protocol implementations and command line utilities, written in C#, for interacting with…

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News October 23 2025

Nasdaq TradeTalks - How AI Is Changing the Underground Cybercrime Economy

The cyber world is seeing a new arms race as AI powers the latest wave of Crimeware-as-a-Service. Director of Security Intelligence Carlos Perez stresses that…

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