Travis began his Information Security career-building by managing firewalls and intrusion detection systems with a managed security services provider. After time spent on the defensive side in the corporate world, Travis put on an offensive cap for a consulting role and hasn’t looked back.
Travis specializes in penetration testing, focusing on gaining a foothold and expanding to a large compromise while hunting for ‘crown jewels.’
Travis has contributed to open-source projects and spoken at security conferences. Additionally, Travis co-hosts a regional InfoSec group, MadSec.
Travis enjoys the, ‘less theory, more fact,’ storytelling aspect of penetration testing reports. This often drives immediate remediations to improve the overall security postures of previously overlooked vectors.
Additionally, he has the coolest responses to the classic icebreaker, ‘what do you do for a living?‘