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.
Injecting Rogue DNS Records Using DHCP
Understanding DHCP to Inject Rogue DNS Records via Spoofed MAC Addresses.
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,…
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…
Dungeons and Daemons
Play Roll for Initiative. Hack the Planet.Dungeons & Daemons is a cybersecurity RPG that drops you into the boots of a Red Team operator on a live…
You Had Us at the First Alert: A Guide to Finding Frequently Missed Detections
Join us for this webinar to get a clearer picture of where your detection coverage has blind spots and a practical roadmap for closing them before a real…
Benchmarking Self-Hosted LLMs for Offensive Security
We put LLMs to the test—let's find out how good AI is at hacking! We walk through six simple challenges with intentionally naïve setups to test how capable…
TrustedSec Livestream - AMA: Detection Engineering in 2026 and Beyond with John Dwyer
Come prepared with your questions and walk away with actionable knowledge to sharpen your detection capabilities.
IAM the Captain Now – Hijacking Azure Identity Access
I decided to spend some research time diving in depth into Identity and Access Management (IAM) within Microsoft Azure. I am going to show you within this blog…
Building a Detection Foundation: Part 5 - Correlation in Practice
From Data Sources to DetectionWe've covered a lot of ground in this series: Windows Security events for logon tracking and process execution; PowerShell…
Security Noise - A Goblin, a Ghost, and a Ninja Walk into the Azure Bar
On this episode, Geoff and Skyler are joined by NyxGeek to discuss his suite of Azure bypass techniques. Since these techniques leave no trace, what does it…
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