Colson Wilhoit
Senior Security Research Engineer at Elastic
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColson Wilhoit is a cyber operations professional with seven years of hands-on experience blending military cyber defense with commercial threat research and detection engineering. He currently serves on the Missouri Cyber Protection Team after roles as a Senior Security Research Engineer at Elastic and as a cyber hunt/threat analyst, where he built MITRE ATT&CK–mapped behavioral detections across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Comfortable moving from SIEM tuning and incident response to adversary emulation and production-grade detection logic, he has frequently owned end-to-end detection workflows and purple team exercises. His background as a Signal Officer and audio-engineering degrees reveal a rare mix of disciplined operational leadership and meticulous attention to signal-level detail. Colson’s profile shows a practitioner who bridges tactical state-level cyber readiness with product-focused detection engineering.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Signal Basic Officers Leadership Course, Signal Basic Officers Leadership Course at U.S Army Cyber Center of ExcellenceBachelor’s Degree, Audio Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Audio Engineering at Webster UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism, Bachelor of Science (BS), Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism at Southeast Missouri State University
Thai
Github Skills (38)
observability10
threat-hunting10
fleet10
integrations10
kibana10
security10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
team-project9
docker9
emulation8
security-testing8
hacking8
cybersecurity8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DefSecSentinel/detection-rules
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Rules for Elastic Security's detection engine
Contributions:7 pushes, 8 branches in 13 days
extractionsecurity-toolsdetectionelasticsecurity
DefSecSentinel/elastic-container
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Stand up a simple Elastic container with Kibana, Fleet, and the Detection Engine
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 12 days
standelasticdockerkibanaengine-detection
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