Benny Karnes
Information Security Red Team Program Lead
South Charleston, West Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenny Karnes is an Information Security leader with 11 years of professional experience who currently heads Red Team programs at Genesys after leading infrastructure pentesting and senior security engineering at Live Nation. A pragmatic computer generalist comfortable across Linux, macOS and Windows, he blends hands-on offensive security, cloud systems knowledge and web/database development—rooted in long-standing open source advocacy. His background spans military-grade IT leadership in the WV Air National Guard to commercial roles in consulting and cloud operations, giving him a disciplined, systems-oriented approach to threat simulation and remediation. Known for tooling fluency (PHP, Perl, MySQL, Linux) and CMS expertise, he brings both practical exploit-minded skills and program-level management to build repeatable, measurable security practices.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., B.S. at West Virginia State University
Github Skills (4)
ip-address5
network-visualization4
subnet4
php3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bkarnes/LinuxAdminClass
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:25 commits, 78 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
bkarnes/vagrant
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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