Adam Pennington
ATT&CK Lead Senior Principal Cyber Security Engineer at MITRE
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolAdam Pennington is the ATT&CK Lead and a Senior Principal Cyber Security Engineer at MITRE with roughly seven years of focused experience in operations, cyber threat intelligence, deception, and intrusion detection. He leads the MITRE ATT&CK program, shaping how organizations observe, categorize, and respond to adversary behaviors while blending security architecture and storage-security expertise. With an academic foundation from Carnegie Mellon (MS ECE, BS CS) and early hands-on roles from research internships to sound engineering, he brings a multidisciplinary, analytical approach to attacker observation and analysis. Adam is known for translating threat intelligence into practical detection and deception capabilities that improve defensive telemetry and incident response. He combines deep technical rigor with operational perspective, often surfacing subtle attacker tradecraft that others miss.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, MS Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (16)
cybersecurity10
mitre-attack10
cyber-threat-intelligence10
python9
defense9
threat-intelligence9
splunk9
rule8
logging8
ids8
security8
monitoring7
elasticsearch6
ctf6
jekyll5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
center-for-threat-informed-defense/public-resources
Dec 2020 - Apr 2022
Collection of resources related to the Center for Threat-Informed Defense
Contributions:41 commits, 1 PR, 35 pushes in 1 year 4 months
centersecuritythreat-informed-defensecybersecuritythreat
adampennin/attack-scripts
Mar 2019 - Jun 2021
Scripts and a (future) library to improve users' interactions with the ATT&CK content
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 2 months
pythoninteractions
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