Summary
Andy 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