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Jake Williams

CTO of BreachQuest

Jake Williams is the CTO and co-founder of BreachQuest and the former CTO and co-founder of Rendition Infosec. He brings to his role over two decades of experience in secure network design, penetration testing, incident response, forensics, and malware reverse engineering. Prior to founding BreachQuest and Rendition Infosec, Jake worked with various government agencies in information security. He is an IANS Faculty Member and works as a SANS Analyst. In addition, Jake is a prolific speaker on topics in information security and has trained thousands of people on incident response, red team operations, reverse engineering, cyber threat intelligence, and other information security topics. He is the two-time winner of the DC3 Digital Forensics Challenge, a recipient of the DoD Exceptional Civilian Service Award, and is one of only a handful of people to ever be certified as Master Network Exploitation Operator by the US government.


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