EXPERIENCE
Brandi Shaffer started her career in journalism by writing for local newspapers, magazines, and trade publications. She spent 7 years covering the country club sector as Senior Editor of Club & Resort Business magazine. In 2018, Brandi pivoted to technical editing when she joined TrustedSec as a Copy Editor and became Team Lead of the Quality Assurance group, reviewing company-wide documentation for style, accuracy, and grammar.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
- Bachelor of Arts, English, Allegheny College
- Master of Arts, Journalism & Mass Communication, Kent State University
Featured Blogs and Resources
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The SOCKS We Have at Home
IntroductionWhen performing penetration tests, we sometimes find that the systems or data we are targeting are not directly accessible from the network our…
What is Hackvertor (and why should I care)?
1.1 What’s Hackvertor and why should I care?Years ago, Gareth Heyes created a Burp Suite (Burp) extension called Hackvertor. It’s an extension with a lot…
Clickjacking: Not Just for the Clicks
tl;dr versionYou can trick users into "typing" inputs in a clickjacking attack.YouTube demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIEZ1aByFvUPoC GitHub Repo:…
Book Review - The Definitive Guide to PCI DSS Version 4
As a PCI QSA, I have answered numerous questions about the new PC DSS Version 4. With over 500 total controls, and at least 100 of them unique to this version,…
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…
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