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Jake Williams

Nov 21, 2024, 15:17
Title : Jake Williams
First Name : Jake
Last Name : Williams
Designation : IANS Faculty
Job Title : Founder
Company : Rendition Infosec
Salesforce Contact ID : 0030b00001ws32CAAQ
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Jake Williams (aka MalwareJake) is a seasoned security researcher with decades of experience in technology and security. Jake is a former startup founder, former senior SANS instructor and course author, and an intelligence community and military veteran. He loves forensics, incident response, cyber threat intelligence and offensive methodologies. Today, Jake is an IANS faculty member, an independent security consultant, and is performing security-focused research to benefit the broader community. He has had the honor of twice winning the DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3) annual digital forensics challenge. You may also know Jake from one of his many conference talks, webcasts, media appearances or his postings about cybersecurity.

  • Incident Response
  • Digital Forensics
  • Threat Modeling
  • Penetration Testing
  • Security Architecture
  • Two-Time Winner of the Annual DC3 Forensics Challenge
  • Speaker at information security conferences such as Black Hat, DEF CON, ShmooCon, RSA, and DC3
  • Designated a Master Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) Operator by the NSA
  • Former Vulnerability Analyst at US Department of Defense
  • Former Senior Systems Engineer at Dell Services
  • MSIA, Information Assurance –Capitol College
  • GSE, GSNA, GCFE, GREM, GCWN, GCIA, GCIH, GPEN, GCFA, GXPN, GSEC –GIAC

Jake Williams joined the IANS Faculty 2018. Jake is a prominent speaker and security practitioner who brings deep domain-level insights to our clients on incident response digital forensics, threat modeling, penetration testing and security architecture.

  • Outed NSA Hacker
  • Tapped for laptop forensics on headline-making case
  • NSA Exceptional Civilian Service Award winner
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