Andy Thompson
Senior Offensive Cybersecurity Research Evangelist - CyberArk Labs at Palo Alto Networks
McKinney, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Thompson is a seasoned offensive cybersecurity researcher and public-facing evangelist with 11+ years of experience translating advanced attacker tradecraft into actionable guidance for customers and security teams. Currently leading modern offensive research at Palo Alto Networks/CyberArk Labs, he focuses on identity abuse, cloud, supply chain, and AI tooling while converting complex findings into talks, demos, PoCs, and executive briefings. His background spans hands-on infrastructure and systems engineering—from virtualization and disaster recovery to global desktop and POS rollouts—giving him uncommon visibility into both defender operational challenges and attacker techniques. A practiced communicator, he partners across product, marketing, and sales to turn research into enablement and is active in the offensive security community. Based in McKinney, Texas, Andy combines enterprise-scale delivery experience with a knack for making high-fidelity technical narratives accessible to diverse audiences.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Management Information Systems and Services, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Management Information Systems and Services at The University of Texas at Arlington
Github Skills (18)
jailbreak8
privilege7
session-manager7
security6
ctf6
proxy4
ai4
ctf-framework4
fuzzing4
rdp3
llm3
java2
audit2
python2
monitoring1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BinaryWasp/BashBunny
Aug 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
BinaryWasp/RDPProxyLinkBuilder
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Create RDP Links for Privilege Session Manager Proxy
Contributions:21 commits, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 month
proxyprivilegerdpsession-managerlinks
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