About this talk
More Tales From the Crypt...Analyst The speaker was a member of NSA’s first Red Team, known as “the Pit”. Learn about the formation of the team, engagement methodologies, and how we learned to navigate the politics, bureaucracy, and reticence of NSA. Hear war stories from the early days of vulnerability & threat assessment at NSA and see how this industry and the practice of penetration testing has evolved over the past 25 years. Presenter: Jeffrey Man (@MrJeffMan) Respected Information Security expert, advisor, evangelist, co-host on Paul's Security Weekly, and currently serving in a Consulting/Advisory role for Online Business Systems. Over 37 years of experience working in all aspects of computer, network, and information security, including risk management, vulnerability analysis, compliance assessment, forensic analysis and penetration testing. Previously held security research, management and product development roles with the National Security Agency, the DoD and private-sector enterprises and was part of the first penetration testing "red team" at NSA. For the past twenty years, has been a pen tester, security architect, consultant, QSA, and PCI SME, providing consulting and advisory services to many of the nation's best known companies.