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Michael Bond

Security Consultant

EXPERIENCE
Michael Bond has worked in offensive security for over four (4) years as an Internal Penetration tester and Consulting Penetration tester. Mike previously worked for a Cisco Value Added Reseller (VAR). He held positions such as Principal Architect and Professional Services Manager, where he designed and implemented Cisco Unified Communications, LAN/WAN/Wireless networks, and security solutions in both large and medium enterprise environments. Mike has over 26 years of IT experience.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

  • Associate of Applied Science, Computer Information Technology, Cyber Defense, Tarrant County Junior College
  • Associate of Applied Science, Computer Science, Application
  • Development, Nashville State Community College
  • Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
  • Offensive Security Wireless Professional (OSWP)
  • Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
  • Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert Emeritus (CCIE #17963)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • DC615
  • Nashville OWASP Chapter

INDUSTRY CONTRIBUTIONS
Mike has developed several open source tools such as config-dump and VNUM. He has been a guest speaker for multiple Vanderbilt University Cybersecurity Boot Camps and internal events.

PASSION FOR SECURITY
Mike’s passion for security started when he would perform best practice assessments for enterprise networks to find misconfigurations that could lead to a device compromise. This led him to move to offensive security, where he now enjoys compromising networks and providing guidance on how to protect networking devices from compromise.

Featured Blogs And Resources

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Blog April 06 2023

Cisco Hackery: TcL Proxy

Since moving to an offensive security role, I have always wanted to use SSH port forwarding through a Cisco router during a Penetration Test. However, the SSH…

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Blog October 06 2022

Cisco Hackery: How Cisco Configuration Files Can Help Attackers Enumerate Your Network

1.0 Intro Prior to making a career change to offensive security, I spent over 15 years working for a Cisco partner designing and implementing enterprise and…

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Training Resources November 07 2024

Actionable Purple Team Simulation Online Training (November 7-8)

Learn how to create specific detections to identify early Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) in our online course. Designed for those looking to improve their…

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Webinars August 07 2024

Ask Me Anything: Proactive Threat Hunting

As threat actors become more sophisticated, organizations' approaches to finding malicious activity must become more proactive and refined. Dive into the…

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Training Resources August 03 2024

Black Hat USA Training - Applied Threat Hunting and Detection Engineering

Registration is now open for our Black Hat training on August 3-6, 2024

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Blog August 01 2024

Lapse of Control: Applauding PCI SSC for FAQ 1572

I want to applaud the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) for FAQ 1572 published in March of 2024 for simply and effectively answering a question asked by…

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Events TrustedSec HQ | July 30 2024

ISC2 Cleveland Chapter Member Meeting July 2024

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

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Webinars July 29 2024

Specula: A Red Team Chronicle

Microsoft Outlook is often used as the primary email client in corporate environments, making it a high-value target for threat actors. Any potential to…

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Webinars July 24 2024

Ask Me Anything: Remediation

Join the TrustedSec Remediation Team as they discuss how to prioritize and identify deficiencies in your cloud platform and examine best practices to harden…

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News July 22 2024

TrustedSec Tech Brief - July 2024 Week 3

Director of Security Intelligence Carlos Perez goes over the top news for the third week of July 2024, including the latest on the CrowdStrike outage.

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