Bio

Will is an researcher/offensive engineer at SpecterOps and performs a variety of offensive services including red team engagements, security research, and offensive tool development. He is a co-founder of the Veil-Framework, GhostPack, Empire/EmPyre, and BloodHound. He developed PowerView and PowerUp, was an active developer on the PowerSploit project, and is a former Microsoft PowerShell/CDM MVP. He also co-developed and published the ''Certified Pre-Owned'' Active Directory Certificate Services research and whitepaper. He has presented at a number of security conferences including DEF CON, Black Hat, ShmooCon, DerbyCon, Troopers, BlueHat Israel, PSConfEU, and several Security BSides conferences on topics spanning AV-evasion, post-exploitation, Active Directory, red team tradecraft, and offensive PowerShell. He also previously co-developed and taught the ''Adaptive Red Team Tactics'' and ''Advanced PowerShell for Offensive Operations'' Black Hat training classes, and is the architect for the ''Adversary Tactics: Red Team Operations'' course (https://specterops.io/how-we-help/training-offerings). He has a strong computer science background with a security focus, a masters in information security from Carnegie Mellon University and experience at two of the leading cybersecurity research labs in the country, Sandia National Labs and SEI/CERT. He is also certified as an Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) and an Offensive Security Certified Expert (OSCE).