EXPERIENCE
Tyler has over 20 years of real-world experience in incident response, malware analysis, computer forensics, and information security for multiple organizations. He has spoken and taught at a number of security conferences about topics ranging from incident response to penetration testing techniques.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
- BS Computer Science, University of Akron
- GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)
- GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE)
INDUSTRY CONTRIBUTIONS
MASTIFF Static Analysis Framework
PASSION FOR SECURITY
Tyler’s passion for incident response stems from his love of solving puzzles. He uses this ambition to get to the bottom of issues at hand; whether it’s forensic analysis of a disk, reverse engineering or malware, or the latest CTF contest, Tyler is driven to uncover every detail.
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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