Michael Pella
Red Team Penetration Tester @Citi
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WORK HISTORY
Red Team Penetration Tester @Citi
Red Team Tradecraft, Penetration Testing, Adversary Simulation, Long Term Offensive Operations and Persistence.
EDUCATION
Nova Southeastern University
Information Assurance, Information System Security
Florida International University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
Nova Southeastern University
Master of Science (MS), Computer and Information Sciences, Information Security
SKILLS
ABOUT MICHAEL PELLA
Dedicated Information Security professional with over 15 years of corporate enterprise security and IT experience including penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, threat analysis, risk mitigation, and security infrastructure administration.A red teamer with a passion for discovering how things work, breaking them down, and then determining how even the smallest building block can be misused to an attacker’s advantage. It\'s important to me to never stop learning, tinkering, improving and practicing tradecraft inside and outside the workplace to continually improve and gain an edge in this constantly changing threat landscape. I am a team player that works very well in groups and I’m equally effective working independently self-driven on complex technical tasks and projects. Staying ahead of the latest cyber threats and attacker TTPs requires persistence in finding avenues of compromise, and then demonstrating business risk while providing reasonable and effective mitigating controls.+-=[Specialties:Red Teaming, Penetration Testing, Cyber Threat Analysis, Vulnerability Assessments, Attacker-Centric Threat Modeling & Mitigation, Adversary Emulation, Purple Teaming+-=[CTF Accomplishments: 2024 SANS SEC670 Day-6 CTF 1st place with Coin2023 OSEP Offensive Security research and labs2022 Ongoing VulnHub and Offensive Security Labs2021 Offensive Security OSWE - All lab machines2021 SANS SEC573 Day-6 CTF and pyWars2019 SANS Holiday Hack - Runners-Up for Grand Prize w/Coin2019 SpecterOps ATRTO CTF - 1st Place2019 Corelan Exploit Development Bootcamp2018 DerbyCon 8 - Evil Mainframe Penetration Testing2017 SANS SEC760 Day-6 CTF - 1st Place w/Coin2016 SANS NetWars Tournament - 1st Place2015 SANS Holiday Hack - 1st Place Grand Prize Winner2014 SANS Holiday Hack - Really Honorable Mention2014 NetWars Continuous – Level 5 - All flags solved2014 SANS SEC660 Day-6 CTF - 1st Place w/Coin2014 HackMiami Conference CTF - 1st Place2014 Bsides Orlando HackMiami CTF - 1st Place2013 CSAW Online Quals - Many challenges solved2012 ISSA Hack the Flag Advanced CTF - 2nd Place2011 ISSA Hack the Flag CTF - 1st Place2010 SANS SEC709 Day-6 CTF - 2nd Place2009 SANS SEC560 Day-6 CTF - 2nd Place
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