Wesley Mcgrew Email & Phone Number

Starkville, Mississippi, United States

- Co-founder of Halberd Group, acquired by accounting firm HORNE LLP- Developed infrastructure, tools, tactics, and processes for advanced penetration testing and red team services- Developed software for managing collaborative teams on offense-oriented engagements, project management for continued development and evolution- Created a finding classification system used in reports to assist clients in prioritizing vulnerability remediation- Client-facing, from initial contact through proposal, scoping, engagement, delivery, and continued relationship- Reverse engineering of malicious software to inform red teaming practice and in support of a ransomware simulation product, Threatrunner- Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) collection, analysis, and reporting- Presentations and training events yearly at Black Hat USA and DEF CON. Frequent presentations at target market conferences and quoted frequently in press coverage of cyber security matters. Select presentations: - DEF CON 27 Workshop – Introduction to Reverse Engineering with Ghidra - DEF CON 26 & Black Hat USA 2018 – An Attacker Looks at Docker: Approaching Multi-Container Apps - DEF CON 25 Workshop & Black Hat USA 2017 – Protecting Penetration Tests: Recommendations for Improving Engagement Security - DEF CON 24 & Black Hat USA 2016 – Secure Penetration Testing Operations: Demonstrated Weaknesses in Learning materials & Tools

Starkville, Mississippi, United States

Teaching and curriculum development in support of MSU's designation as a National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence in Education, Research, and Cyber Operations.

- Research, teaching, and curriculum development in support of MSU’s designation as a National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence in Education and Research.- Developed courses in software reverse engineering and contributed to the application and review process for MSU’s designation as a National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations. Taught interns for a summer program at NSA in support of the cyber operations program.- Proposed and led research projects involving big-data-scale automated analysis of malicious software, automated virtualization of cyber operations target environments, and vulnerability analysis of Industrial Control System software for the MSU Center for Computer Security Research and the Distributed Analytics and Security institute.- Served on thesis and dissertation committees for many graduate students.- Select Presentations: - DEF CON 23 – I Hunt Penetration Testers: More Weaknesses in Tools and Procedures - DEF CON 22 – Instrumenting Point-of-Sale Malware - DEF CON 21 – Pwn the Pwn Plug: Analyzing and Counter-Attacking Attacker-Implanted Devices

Starkville, Mississippi, United States

- Leadership, development, and training for the National Forensic Training Center, providing digital forensics training to law enforcement and wounded veterans of the armed services.- Technical editor for Data Hiding: Exposing Concealed Data in Multimedia, Operating Systems, Mobile Devices and Network Protocols, Michael Raggo, Chet Hosmer, Syngress Publishing 2012- Select Presentations - DEF CON 20 – SCADA HMI and MS Bob: Vulnerability Analysis of Human-Machine Interface Systems - DEF CON 19 & Black Hat USA 2011 – Covert Post-Exploitation Forensics with Metasploit

Starkville, Mississippi, United States

Starkville, Mississippi, United States

- Penetration testing- Digital forensics investigations- Application security testing- Security research and tool development

Starkville, Mississippi, United States

- Developed an OSINT platform for collection and analysis of social media data for political campaigns and intellectual property protection- Conducted OSINT research and investigation projects for clients