Chris Kirsch works on the products team at Veracode and has 20 years of experience in security, particularly in the areas of application security testing, security assessments, incident response, and cryptography. Previously, he managed Metasploit and incident response solutions at Rapid7 and held similar positions at Thales e-Security and PGP Corporation. He is the winner of the Social Engineering CTF Black Badge competition at DEF CON 25.
I’d read about social engineering for a few years before I first stepped into the Social Engineering Village at DEF CON 20. But I didn’t grasp the power of this type of attack until I watched a live call during which employees of major companies simply offered up all the information needed to…
