Emerson is an accomplished Penetration Tester and security professional with over 7 years of experience working in the InfoSec space. His passion for finding and exploiting vulnerabilities, coupled with a strong business acumen has allowed him to provide deep value to clients and employers when evaluating application security posture and driving remediation efforts. Emerson is a graduate of Minnesota State University Mankato, where he and Dan Salmon frequently collaborated and deepened their hacking knowledge. Outside of work, Emerson's hobbies include competing in Track and Field, cooking, and reading.
Dan is a hacker with 5 years of professional experience in web security testing. He leverages development knowledge to aide in source code analysis as well as building new offensive tooling for his team. He has published many open-source security tools including a printer honeypot, a popular S3 bucket scanner, and a dataset of scraped Venmo transactions that received a lot of tech media attention and a Wired opinion piece. Dan enjoys learning new tech and finding interesting ways to break it. You can find him blogging about silly projects at danthesalmon.com.
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