Corey Gilks
Senior Consultant - Penetration Testing & Red Team
Greater Cleveland United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCorey Gilks is a Senior Consultant specializing in penetration testing and red team operations with nine years of hands-on experience helping large organizations harden their security posture. Based in Greater Cleveland, he blends practical offensive testing with Python tool development and a track record of delivering detailed, client-facing remediation reports. His career spans bank and enterprise environments and continued growth through SecureState’s integration into RSM, where he now focuses on advanced adversary simulation. A published security researcher and blogger, he shares tooling and findings publicly, reflecting a commitment to community knowledge-sharing beyond billable engagements. Colleagues describe him as methodical and inventive—someone who pairs deep technical craft with clear, actionable communication for technical and executive stakeholders.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Maine Central InstituteBachelor in Information Systems, Bachelor in Information Systems at Ashford University
Github Skills (128)
python10
wmi10
rid10
enumerate10
encryption10
mmc10
aix10
tld10
active-directory10
bruteforce10
kerberos10
whois10
protocols10
ssl10
decryption10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Gilks/mmcbrute
Feb 2018 - Jan 2022
Bruteforce over SMB using pure Python
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 11 months
mmcpythonsession-cookieimpacketbrute-force
Gilks/enumerid
Feb 2018 - Oct 2022
Enumerate RIDs using pure Python
Contributions:25 commits, 6 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 years 9 months
pythonenumeratednsreconnaissancesecurity
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