#offensivesecurity — Public Fediverse posts

A lot of us have one, without even noticing: the challenge that started as a joke and turned into years of work.

For Razvan Ionescu, our Head of Offensive Security Services, it was a bet with a former colleague. Who wins? First one to earn the GIAC Security Expert (GSE).

Then COVID froze the exams right before his final lab. (Brutal timing.) He kept going. Today he’s GSE #298.

Ask him what stuck and he forgets about the badge to talk about how systems really break.

The bet got him started. The learning is what he’d tell you to chase.

His full story with SANS Institute: https://www.sans.org/customer-reviews/razvan-costin-ionescu

Want to see what that learning looks like on your own systems? This is what Razvan and the team do: https://pentest-tools.com/services

#offensivesecurity #pentesting

📈 5,000 cyber insurance quotes a month, each one starting with a scan that finishes in 2–3 minutes.

That’s a normal month for Elpha Secure. They insure small businesses that rarely have a security team, so the scan enters the room and becomes one. That scan is ours: Elpha runs Pentest-Tools.com through our API behind every quote, then keeps scanning after the policy starts.

🔹 7 vendors compared before they chose us
🔹 ~3,000 customers under ongoing assessment
🔹 60–90 days between reruns, to see if risk is shrinking or growing
🔹 2 plan upgrades in the past year

Full case study: https://pentest-tools.com/case-studies/elpha-secure

#infosec #cybersecurity #offensivesecurity

Conference season is here, with #BCC26 next week and @DefCamp right after.
So what really draws you in at these events? Vote below.

#offensivesecurity #infosec #ethicalhacking

You walk into a hacker con. What actually makes the trip worth it?