Eric Capuano
IANS Faculty Member at Recon InfoSec
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Capuano is an InfoSec founder, practitioner, and educator with 11 years of hands-on experience building and securing enterprise systems from the military to commercial startups. As founder and former CTO of Recon InfoSec and current IANS faculty member and SANS DFIR instructor, he blends incident response, threat hunting, and security operations into pragmatic training and advisory work. He co-founded the Digital Defense Institute and has trained at Black Hat and other high-profile venues, demonstrating an ability to translate advanced adversary techniques into teachable, enterprise-ready practices. Eric also contributes code — notably a Python-based "organic" web traffic generator — showing he pairs instructional depth with practical tooling and engineering chops. His background includes cyber warfare operations in the Texas Air National Guard and security leadership in state and private sectors, giving him rare operational perspective across national, public, and commercial domains. Based in Austin, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and methodical, militarized rigor to incident response and security architecture.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Cyber Transport Systems, Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technology, Cyber Transport Systems, Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technology at Community College of the Air ForceBachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology - Security, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology - Security at Western Governors UniversityBusiness Administration, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Business Administration, Computer and Information Sciences, General at Austin Community College
Github Skills (4)
regular-expression10
http-request10
python10
webscraping10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ReconInfoSec/web-traffic-generator
Mar 2017 - Feb 2020
A quick and dirty HTTP/S "organic" traffic generator.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the core functionality of the web traffic generator. Their work included the initial implementation of the traffic generation logic in Python, refactoring and optimization with the removal of unused libraries, and enhancing the system by modularizing the configuration with a config file. The user also added error handling to improve the script's robustness and added a sleep delay to prevent infinite looping when root URLs are unreachable.
dirtytraffic-generatororganictraffic
ecapuano/slackbot
May 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
slackslack-botconnected
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