Skylar

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Offensive security, nerdiness, dungeons and dragons, and generally a lifelong n00b.

[Skylar @SecurityWard]

@0xTib3rius 1000% this. Copilot not being native app friendly is a massive miss.

[Nick VanGilder @nickvangilder]

If you’re in the market for an AI-centric offensive security role, please see the below list. Given the positive feedback from last week, I’ll likely start doing this on a weekly basis:

🏛 Company + Role: UnitedHealth Group, AI Red Team Operator
👀 Quick Insights: Remote / Hybrid (Eden Prairie, MN; Washington, DC), Internal AI red team, Individual contributor, Travel: 10%
💰 Comp: $73k-$130k/yr + bonus + equity + benefits
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/EO7v98w3Fw
✏️ Notes: Standout w/ experience with blue team tools and methods

🏛 Company + Role: Amazon, Senior Manager of AI Red Team
👀 Quick Insights: Remote (United States), Internal AI red team / build and lead, People manager
💰 Comp: $209k-$282k/yr + bonus + equity + benefits
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/qi4UA6Uspq
✏️ Notes: This role is responsible for building and leading Amazon’s AI offensive security research program. Standout w/ a proven track record of building and scaling security capabilities in complex technology organizations

🏛 Company + Role: Amazon, Manager of Security Engineering, AGI AI Security
👀 Quick Insights: Remote (United States), Internal AI security / strategic, People manager
💰 Comp: $209k-$282k/yr + bonus + equity + benefits
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/AUVydb4K5P
✏️ Notes: Standout w/ master's degree in Computer Science and Computer experience managing remote workers

🏛 Company + Role: Leidos, Full Spectrum Cyber AI Researcher
👀 Quick Insights: Remote (United States), Internal AI security / research / automation, Individual contributor, Travel: 10%
💰 Comp: $108k-$196k/yr + benefits
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/T0sdOJXtuj
✏️ Notes: Standout w/ demonstrated applied research experience using modern AI techniques for automated or semi-automated penetration testing

[Bryson 🦄 @brysonbort]

Thread: How real adversaries are using C2 in 2026 (From building @scythe_io + watching nation-state/red team playbooks) 

Spoiler: It's not just fancy Cobalt Strike beacons anymore. 🦄 1/10

[Nick VanGilder @nickvangilder]

Every week I share a curated list of red team-specific jobs (or similar/adjacent) that caught my attention. My goal is simple: help job hunters in the offensive security space find a red team-specific role.

Below is this week’s list:

🏛 Company + Role: Anthropic, Red Team Engineer (Safeguards)
👀 Quick Insights: Hybrid (San Francisco, CA; Washington, DC), Product abuse + AI safety red teaming, Individual contributor, Travel: yes
💰 Comp: $300k-$320k/yr + benefits
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/k9lzKbnulN
✏️ Notes: Stand out w/ ability to understand and build engagements around emerging threats outside of direct area of expertise

🏛 Company + Role: Booz Allen Hamilton, Offensive Cyber Operations Solutions Architect (Senior Manager)
👀 Quick Insights: Hybrid (Annapolis Junction, MD), Consulting, People manager
💰 Comp: $142k-$266k/yr + benefits
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/kQLoBwI4Kf
✏️ Notes: Requires active TS/SCI clearance + willingness to take poly

🏛 Company + Role: State Street, Cyber Emerging Threat & Purple Team (Managing Director)
👀 Quick Insights: Hybrid (Boston, MA; Clifton, NJ; Kilkenny, Ireland), Internal team, People manager
💰 Comp: $170k-$282k/yr + bonus + benefits
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/rZtTVcihQe
✏️ Notes: Stand out with past experience and strong understanding of financial services regulatory frameworks and threat-led testing requirements

🏛 Company + Role: Anthropic, Offensive Security Engineer
👀 Quick Insights: Hybrid (San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA), Internal team, Individual contributor, Travel: yes
💰 Comp: $300k-$320k/yr + benefits
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/Wx13HhjFwW
✏️ Notes: Stand out w/ experience conducting adversarial simulations against well defended environments

🏛 Company + Role: Experian, Lead Offensive Security Engineer
👀 Quick Insights: Remote (United States), Internal offensive security / red team, Individual contributor (Lead)
💰 Comp: $133k-$239k/yr + bonus + benefits
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/RAfDOZssVe
✏️ Notes: Somewhat surprisingly, this role seems to include physical red teaming. This could be a really cool role

🏛 Company + Role: 1Password, Principal Security Researcher
👀 Quick Insights: Remote (United States; Canada), Security research leadership, Senior individual contributor
💰 Comp: $246k-$369k/yr + stock + benefits (US); $228k-$342k/yr + stock + benefits (CA)
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/LrPKRqur4A
✏️ Notes: The bar is high on this one, but the pay is commensurate

🏛 Company + Role: 1Password, Senior Security Researcher
👀 Quick Insights: Remote (United States; Canada), Product security research, Individual contributor
💰 Comp: $153k-$214k/yr + stock + benefits (US); $144k-$202k/yr + stock + benefits (CA)
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/C5J6Q4W8Q4
✏️ Notes: Stand out with proven track record of discovering and responsibly disclosing original vulnerabilities, ideally with published CVEs, advisories, or equivalent publicly-recognized findings

🏛 Company + Role: Invesco, Principal Red Team Operator
👀 Quick Insights: Onsite (Houston, TX; Atlanta, GA), Internal red team, Senior individual contributor
💰 Comp: Not listed + stock + benefits
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/C2VNRI0cm3—Red-Team-Operator_R-12989
✏️ Notes: Stand out w/ prior experience mentoring junior operators + elevating the maturity of the offsec program

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🔴 Kremlin spies acquiring network of sites designed to launch sabotage campaigns

Read the full story below 🖇️
https://t.co/HTmhoaT7zG

[Skylar @SecurityWard]

@0xTib3rius @AcrossPondPod I'm always down to rant on various topics

[Nick VanGilder @nickvangilder]

Every week I share a curated list of red team-specific jobs (or similar/adjacent) that caught my attention. My goal is simple: help job hunters in the offensive security space find a red team-specific role.

Below is this week’s list:

🏛 Company + Role: Walmart, Principal Incident Response Engineer (Red Team)
👀 Quick Insights: Onsite (Herndon, VA; Bentonville, AR), Comp: $110k-$264k/yr + stock options + benefits, Internal team, Individual contributor
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/qjZUamFHY4
✏️ Notes: There are some really great people on this team who I would vouch for and highly recommend. Overall, this is an excellent opportunity to do red teaming with a Fortune 1; however, the one downside is that it’s not remote.

🏛 Company + Role: MUFG, Red Team Operator
👀 Quick Insights: Hybrid (Tempe, AZ; Jersey City, NJ), Comp: $110k-$135k/yr + bonus + incentives + benefits, Internal team, Individual contributor
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/gemKihFuHW
✏️ Notes: This is another excellent opportunity and great team run by fantastic people. Also, I think there are actually 2 of this same position available.

🏛 Company + Role: Knox Systems, Red Team Operator
👀 Quick Insights: Hybrid (New York, NY; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; Washington, DC), Comp: $145k-$180k/yr + bonus + equity + benefits, Internal team, Individual contributor
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/RUYXACURxj
✏️ Notes: This is a senior hands on role, intended for operators who prefer active offensive work over admin responsibilities. Public Trust, Secret, or TS/SCI preferred.

🏛 Company + Role: Cloudflare, Red Team Manager
👀 Quick Insights: Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Comp: not specified, Internal team, People and program manager
�� Apply Here: https://t.co/ONsbIPtCYt
✏️ Notes: This is a leadership role overseeing Cloudflare’s red team operations.

🏛 Company + Role: Apple, Senior Security Engineer Red Team
👀 Quick Insights: Onsite (Seattle, WA), Comp: $171k-$302k/yr + RSUs + bonus + relocation + benefits, Internal team, Individual contributor
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/eMF6B82ZaJ
✏️ Notes: This is not your typical red team role; however, if you enjoy vuln research, breaking things, and exploit chains, this could be a good gig. Stand out w/ community contributions like public CVEs, bug bounty recognition, open source tools, blogs, talks etc.

🏛 Company + Role: Little Caesars, Red Team Engineer
👀 Quick Insights: Onsite (Detroit, MI), Comp: not specified, Internal team, Individual contributor
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/2EIkludcfG
✏️ Notes: Their pizza sucks and no comp details are available; however, if the pay is right, this could be with considering

🏛 Company + Role: FTI Consulting, Senior Consultant Offensive Security
👀 Quick Insights: Onsite (Sydney, NSW, AU), Comp: $115k-$150k/yr + bonus + excellent benefits, Consulting, Individual contributor
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/zcKKIpIczf
✏️ Notes: I was asked to try to find/include offsec roles in Australia, and is what I found. I don’t know if this is a good comp for Australia; however, it sounds like a solid role.

🏛 Company + Role: Cyber Advisors, Red Team Lead
👀 Quick Insights: Remote (United States), Comp: $160k-$220k/yr + performance-based incentives + benefits, Consulting, Individual contributor
🎯 Apply Here: https://t.co/2MC1h8doTl
✏️ Notes: This role is with an MSP and sounds like there would be billable hour expectations.

[Spy Collection @SpyCollection1]

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[Skylar @SecurityWard]

Happy New Year!

[Skylar @SecurityWard]

Shout and thanks to @0xTib3rius for having me on to talk about the Honeyman Project

[Tib3rius @0xTib3rius]

New video! I sat down with Skylar (@SecurityWard) to dig into the Honeyman Project, a research experiment where devices are intentionally exposed at cons, coffee shops, and more to see who tries to hack them and how.

Watch now! https://t.co/BGm4dyv0yp

[Skylar @SecurityWard]

This feels like a stunt. A space heater that mines bitcoin.
https://t.co/a7quzEZn7d

[Thinkst Canary @ThinkstCanary]

This quarter we announced two new platforms for Canary: Oracle Cloud Infra. (OCI) & Nutanix.

Our v1 was a hardware device, but today, Canary also runs on
- GCP,
- AWS,
- VMware,
- Azure,
- Docker,
- Tailscale,
- OCI,
- Nutanix.

Still dead simple. Still "just works!"

[Skylar @SecurityWard]

@sternpinball Monster Squad or just do an old school Frankenstein with all black and white!

[Andy Piazza @klrgrz]

It me. Come hear me rant about threat Intel stuff and things - the good, bad, and funny.

[InfoSecMap @InfoSecMap]

✨ October brings ~20 @SecurityBSides events! ✨

Hosted by @BSides_NoVA @BSidesAugusta @BSidesCleveland @BSidesPDX @BSidesNYC @BSidesPer @BSidesTO @BSidesCymru @OsloBSides @BSidesVI @BSidesPeoria & others.

All #BSides events 👇🏽
https://t.co/wVhD1BfeKh

#InfoSec #Cybersecurity

[alli @sonofalli]

babe are you ok? it’s already q4 and you’ve barely touched your “2025 roadmap”

[Security BSides Northern Virginia @BSides_NoVA]

Level up your #cyber deception game by learning and practicing advanced techniques like Whaley's "Double Back" and "Double Exchange" to actively mislead attackers at #BSidesNoVA!

Workshop: https://t.co/NGEoukVI6P
Tickets: https://t.co/m4J2bIgQzM

[Graham Helton (too much for zblock) @GrahamHelton3]

A sneak peek of a project I'm working on that will be demo'd at @BSides_NoVA :)

[Graham Helton (too much for zblock) @GrahamHelton3]

My @BSides_NoVA talk is coming along nicely. One day I will stop using Canva but I fear today is not that day :(

[Andy Piazza @klrgrz]

I am extremely proud of the team for this awesome recognition from @virusbtn today!