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Patrick Mayo

Security Consultant

EXPERIENCE
Prior to joining TrustedSec, Patrick performed penetration testing and security engineering for cloud security for multiple private companies and government organizations. Patrick has experience with securing and engineering cloud-native infrastructure to aid in meeting industry or regulation compliance requirements.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

  • Master of Science: Information Assurance, University of Advanced Technology
  • GIAC Cloud Penetration Tester (GCPN)
  • Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
  • Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE)
  • AWS Certified Security - Specialty
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
  • CompTIA Security+
  • CompTIA Network+

PASSION FOR SECURITY
Patrick is passionate about assisting clients transition to cloud-first solutions in order to help improve security, aid in operations, and meet organizational and regulatory requirements. He achieves this by securing automation and infrastructure components in cloud and on-premises environments and by understanding how exploits function and occur.

Featured Blogs And Resources

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

Blog June 15 2023

Control Tower Pivoting Using the Default Role

Introduction The cloud security landscape for AWS has continued to evolve each year to become a complex set of products and best practices with the goal of…

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Webinars June 22 2022

Penetration Testing Your Cloud Environment

Join Cloud Practice Lead Paul Burkeland and Cloud Security Consultants Edwin David and Patrick Mayo as they review the ins and outs of examining the security…

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Webinars February 05 2025

2024 Conference Roundup

Join our panelists David Kennedy, Justin Elze, Jason Lang, and Oddvar Moe for their firsthand accounts and perspectives on what people were talking about at…

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News January 21 2025

TrustedSec Tech Brief - January 2025

Carlos Perez walks us through several major vulnerabilities and patches from early January 2025, including a critical Fortinet FortiGate zero-day vulnerability.

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Podcasts January 17 2025

Security Noise - Episode 7.9

On this episode of the Security Noise Podcast, we discuss user enumeration on Azure and "presence data" in Microsoft Teams with nyxgeek.

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Webinars January 15 2025

DOD Contract Compliance: DFARS 7012 and CMMC

Advisory Compliance Practice Lead Chris Camejo will take a deep dive into the Department of Defense requirements for protecting FCI and CUI.

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Blog January 14 2025

Command Line Underdog: WMIC in Action

My typical engagements are mostly Red Teams, so I do not often get a chance to play with terminal server application breakouts—but on a recent engagement, I…

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Blog January 07 2025

Solving NIST Password Complexities: Guidance From a GRC Perspective

Not another password change! Isn’t one (1) extra-long password enough? As a former Incident Response, Identity and Access Control, and Education and Awareness…

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Podcasts December 20 2024

Security Noise - Episode 7.8

Farewell 2024

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Blog December 19 2024

Malware Series: Process Injection Mapped Sections

We're back with another post about common malware techniques. This time, we are talking about using shared memory sections to inject and execute code in a…

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