Built by Attackers. Trusted by Defenders.

As the makers of BloodHound and leaders in Identity Attack Path Managment, we’re on a mission to demystify tradecraft and help you protect your critical assets.

Setting the Standard 

SpecterOps exists to remove the adversary’s ability to operate in your environment. We’re practitioners who built attack path management because traditional security tools weren’t designed for today’s reality.
David McGuire
Chief Executive Officer

What Sets Us Apart

Driven by BloodHound and real-world expertise, we help organizations move from reactive defense to proactive attack path elimination.

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We built the category 

From red team assessments to the leading platform for identity attack path management, we’ve pioneered the practice. 

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We think like attackers

Our expertise comes from real-world adversary tradecraft, not theoretical models. 

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We enable your success

Training, services, and technology that work together to make your identity attack path management practice operationally effective. 

Transparent by Design 

We don’t hoard our insights—we share them. From our Know Your Adversary podcast where industry leaders discuss real threats and defense strategies, to our comprehensive State of Attack Path Management report that defines the practice we created, we’re committed to elevating the entire security community.

Our research doesn’t sit behind paywalls or get locked in vendor whitepapers. We publish what we learn, contribute what we discover, and lead the conversations that shape how the industry approaches identity security. Because when defenders everywhere get better, we all get safer.

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Meet Our Leaders

Our leaders bring the operational and business expertise needed to help 
organizations rethink identity security.

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Jared Atkinson

Chief Technology Officer

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Jared Atkinson

Chief Technology Officer

Jared is a security researcher who specializes in Digital Forensics and Incident Response. Recently, he has been building and leading private sector Hunt Operations capabilities. In his previous life, Jared lead incident response missions for the U.S. Air Force Hunt Team, detecting and removing Advanced Persistent Threats on Air Force and DoD networks. Passionate about PowerShell and the open source community, Jared is the lead developer of PowerForensics, Uproot, and maintains a DFIR focused blog at http://www.invoke-ir.com.

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Tim Bender

Chief Financial Officer

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Tim Bender

Chief Financial Officer

A seasoned financial executive with a track record of guiding high-growth technology companies, Tim brings deep expertise in scaling SaaS business models, financial operations and capital strategy. His expertise encompasses financial operations, strategic planning, and organizational leadership, making him a pivotal addition to SpecterOps’ executive team.

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Andrew Chiles

VP of Tradecraft

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Andrew Chiles

VP of Tradecraft

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Kelly Coffman

Chief of Staff

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Kelly Coffman

Chief of Staff

Kelly is responsible for running Human Resources, Finance, and backend operations for SpecterOps. She began her career in the cyber security industry when she joined Mandiant (FireEye), where she served as their managed services coordinator and eventually the internal and external and logistical training coordinator. Before joining Specter, Kelly served as the operations coordinator with Veris Group’s Adaptive Threat Division, where she was responsible for ensuring oversight, event logistics, management, and billing for $5+ million in services annually.

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Jason Frank

Chief Operating Officer

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Jason Frank

Chief Operating Officer

Jason has extensive technical experience in the field of information security with a specialization in providing technical leadership across adversary-focused engagements while developing adversary operations programs, with extensive experience in leading both large-scale and highly specialized engagements. In addition, he has spent several years building training courses focused on red team operations methodologies. Jason was formerly the primary developer and instructor of the Adaptive Penetration Testing training course, provided at the Black Hat Security Conference.

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Denise Goforth

VP of Sales

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Denise Goforth

VP of Sales

Denise is a seasoned sales leaders with more than 20 years of experience helping enterprises secure their networks. Denise has experience at high-growth early-stage companies including Lacework and ICEBRG, as well as large established companies including Palo Alto Networks. Denise’s passion is delivering meaningful cybersecurity solutions to the market that offer measurable ROI and support the critical work of security pros.

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Bryce Hein

Chief Marketing Officer

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Bryce Hein

Chief Marketing Officer

Bryce is passionate about adding value in cybersecurity through authentic, customer-centric marketing. At SpecterOps, he leads the effort to raise the company’s profile in identity security and help customers understand the unique advantages delivered by its people and platform. He has three decades of experience, most recently serving as CMO at Sysdig, a cloud security company. Prior to that he was CMO at ExtraHop, helping to establish it as a category leader in network security.

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John Hopper

VP of Engineering

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John Hopper

VP of Engineering

John is a software engineer with 15 years of experience stretching from low-level Linux implementation work to hyper scale services an industry cloud provider. He has experience in a wide array of technologies with a focus on systems and fleet management as well as distributed databases and storage solutions. He works on personal projects on GitHub at github.com/zinic and maintains them as a hobby.

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Justin Kohler

Chief Product Officer

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Justin Kohler

Chief Product Officer

Justin is an operations expert who has over a decade of experience in project and program development. After the Air Force, he worked for several consulting firms focused on process and workflow optimization. He enjoys building and leading teams focused on customer delivery at Fortune 500 companies.

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David McGuire

Chief Executive Officer

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David McGuire

Chief Executive Officer

David specializes in building enterprise adversary-focused assessment teams, which have performed thousands of engagements for large private-sector organizations and major government agencies. David has extensive experience in conducting highly specialized, large-scale adversarial operations against a variety of targets. In addition, he has built several training courses focused on red team operations methodologies. In his previous life, David was a senior technical lead for the National Security Agency Red Team, providing mission direction through numerous large-scale operations.

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Elad Shamir

VP of Research and Development

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Elad Shamir

VP of Research and Development

Elad has over a decade of experience across the different domains of information security and spent most of his career focusing on security research and delivering offensive security services. Previously, Elad served in the Israeli intelligence and worked in the private sector in Israel and Australia. Elad specializes in identifying security flaws in complex systems and weaponizing intended functionality for offensive capabilities, particularly in Windows and Active Directory environments. Elad occasionally blogs at https://eladshamir.com.

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Pat Sheridan

Chief Revenue Officer

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Pat Sheridan

Chief Revenue Officer

With nearly three decades of sales and leadership experience in the security industry, Pat joins SpecterOps to lead its worldwide sales organization. As SpecterOps enters a transformative growth phase, Pat will spearhead global revenue strategy, enterprise partnerships, and market expansion initiatives.

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Russel Van Tuyl

VP of Services

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Russel Van Tuyl

VP of Services

Russel is a well-rounded information security consultant and offensive security practitioner. He has over 15 years of IT experience with 7 years as an offensive security consultant performing tasks such as penetration testing, web application assessments, social engineering, and wireless assessments. He has spoken at several security conferences to include Knoxville TN chapters of OWASP and BSides along with BlackHat Arsenal. Tools and open source projects developed by Russel can be found on his GitHub page at https://github.com/Ne0nd0g or on his blog at https://medium.com/@Ne0nd0g. Additionally, he enjoys knowledge sharing and teaching and has presented at several colleges and high schools.

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Robby Winchester

Chief Global Professional Services Officer

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Robby Winchester

Chief Global Professional Services Officer

Robby is an experienced threat hunter and penetration tester. Over the course of Robby’s career, he has developed and supervised penetration testing, physical security, and breach assessments for several private-sector and government clients. Previously Robby worked for the U.S. Air Force Information Aggressors, providing full-scope network and physical red team operational assessments and further worked integrating information security operations with traditional military operations for the U.S. Air Force’s RED FLAG exercise.

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Michael Wright

Chief Security Officer

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Michael Wright

Chief Security Officer

Mike has over 15 years of technical experience in the field of information security and technology specializing in advanced penetration testing, secure enterprise and infrastructure architecture, and engineering. He has supported major U.S. government agencies and Fortune 500 commercial clients as a subject matter expert in technically complex cloud and on-premise environments as well as led large-scale security assessments. Mike is an experienced developer in multiple static and dynamic languages and contributes to several open-source community projects.

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Investors

Board of Directors

Our leaders bring the operational and business expertise needed to help 
organizations rethink identity security.

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Jason Frank

COO, SpecterOps

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Jason Frank

COO, SpecterOps

Jason has extensive technical experience in the field of information security with a specialization in providing technical leadership across adversary-focused engagements while developing adversary operations programs, with extensive experience in leading both large-scale and highly specialized engagements. In addition, he has spent several years building training courses focused on red team operations methodologies. Jason was formerly the primary developer and instructor of the Adaptive Penetration Testing training course, provided at the Black Hat Security Conference.

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Thomas Krane

Insight

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Thomas Krane

Insight

As Managing Director at Insight Partners, Thomas focuses on investments in cybersecurity, DevOps, IT automation, and application software. Since joining Insight in 2012, he has played a key role in advancing the firm’s portfolio and works closely with Insight Partners for Enterprise, a global network of senior technology leaders.

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Kevin Mandia

Chairman of the Board

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Kevin Mandia

Chairman of the Board

A pioneer in cybersecurity with over 30 years of experience, Kevin is Co-founder and General Partner at Ballistic Ventures. He previously founded and led Mandiant through its 2022 acquisition by Google and continues to shape the industry through advisory roles with NSTAC and CISA.

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David McGuire

CEO, SpecterOps

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David McGuire

CEO, SpecterOps

David specializes in building enterprise adversary-focused assessment teams, which have performed thousands of engagements for large private-sector organizations and major government agencies. David has extensive experience in conducting highly specialized, large-scale adversarial operations against a variety of targets. In addition, he has built several training courses focused on red team operations methodologies. In his previous life, David was a senior technical lead for the National Security Agency Red Team, providing mission direction through numerous large-scale operations.

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Jon Sakoda

Decibel

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Jon Sakoda

Decibel

Jon is the Founding Partner of Decibel, a newly formed independent venture firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. An entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, Jon has worked alongside dozens of founders and has a passion for helping startups find their unique advantage.

Customer Success Stories

Helping Those Leading the Fight

I've learned more about our Active Directory environment in the past week than in the previous 4 years.

BloodHound Enterprise has easily been the greatest reduction of risk in our organization to advanced attackers in the last year.

No other tool provides expert analysis of Active Directory principals on a per ACE basis.

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