EXPERIENCE
As co-founder and Vice President of Finance, Erin Kennedy stands as the foundational financial backbone of TrustedSec. With an unwavering dedication to steering the company toward financial excellence, Erin commands a team of exceptionally skilled professionals who share her relentless pursuit of fiscal perfection and ensuring a financially sound operating model at TrustedSec.
Erin is one of the brilliant minds behind the organization of DerbyCon, a cybersecurity conference that captivated audiences for an impressive nine-year run. Her contributions were nothing short of pivotal in ensuring DerbyCon's rise and enduring legacy.
With over 12 years of steadfast leadership at TrustedSec, she has not only been an integral part of its financial structure but also played a pivotal role in coordinating, strategizing, and executing the rapid growth that transformed the company from an early startup into an industry powerhouse. Thanks to her unwavering commitment and entrepreneurial spirit, TrustedSec now stands as a thriving entity, employing hundreds of dedicated professionals who continue to push the boundaries of innovation and excellence.
As a highly skilled woman on the executive leadership team, Erin jointly shares the responsibilities of the success of the companies with TrustedSec’s co-founder and husband David Kennedy. Combining her financial talents and ability to build a team, Erin is an integral part of TrustedSec’s past and future successes.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
- Bachelor of Education, Sign Language Interpreting, Kent State University
INDUSTRY CONTRIBUTIONS
Co-Founder of DerbyCon
PASSION FOR SECURITY
Erin’s passion for the cybersecurity industry was fueled her husband’s passion and talents for helping make the world a safer place with technology. From the start of her career in cybersecurity finance , Erin has been a foundational component in understanding all financial aspects around business and growth while focusing her efforts on building one of the world’s leading cybersecurity companies. Erin highly respects the cybersecurity industry and is continuously learning from a brilliant team of top experts in the field.
Featured Blogs And Resources
Discover the blogs, analysis, webinars, and podcasts by this team member.
The Triforce of Initial Access
LootWhile Red Teamers love to discuss and almost poetically describe their C2 feature sets, EDR evasion capabilities, and fast weaponizing of N-day exploits,…
JS-Tap: Weaponizing JavaScript for Red Teams
How do you use malicious JavaScript to attack an application you know nothing about?Application penetration testers often create custom weaponized JavaScript…
A Hitch-hacker's Guide to DACL-Based Detections (Part 3)
This blog series was co-authored by Security Consultant Megan Nilsen and TAC Practice Lead Andrew Schwartz.1 IntroductionIn this third and final…
A Hitch-hacker's Guide to DACL-Based Detections (Part 2)
This blog series was co-authored by Security Consultant Megan Nilsen and TAC Practice Lead Andrew Schwartz.1 IntroductionThis is a continuation of A…
A Hitch-hacker's Guide to DACL-Based Detections (Part 1B)
This blog series was co-authored by Security Consultant Megan Nilsen and TAC Practice Lead Andrew Schwartz.1 IntroductionIn this continuation to our first…
A Hitch-hacker's Guide to DACL-Based Detections (Part 1A)
This blog series was co-authored by Security Consultant Megan Nilsen and TAC Practice Lead Andrew Schwartz.1 IntroductionIf you were to collectively ask any…
Basic Authentication Versus CSRF
I was recently involved in an engagement where access was controlled by Basic Authentication. One (1) of the findings I discovered was a Cross-Site Request…
Okta for Red Teamers
For a long time, Red Teamers have been preaching the mantra “Don’t make Domain Admin the goal of the assessment” and it appears that customers are listening.…
Creative Process Enumeration
Very often in engagements, you'll want to list out processes running on a host. One thing that is beneficial is to know is if the processes is a 64-bit or…
Crafting Emails with HTML Injection
Have you ever wanted to send an email from a domain you don’t have SMTP credentials for? With some HTML injection, we may be able to do just that. From time to…
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