Eric Zimmerman
SANS Principal Instructor at Kroll Cyber Security
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Zimmerman is a SANS Principal Instructor and seasoned digital forensics expert with over a decade of experience blending hands-on incident response, reverse engineering, and tooling development. A former FBI Special Agent and current senior leader at Kroll Cyber Security, he teaches and co-authors SANS FOR498 and FOR508 courses while maintaining deep expertise in X-Ways and forensic programming. He holds multiple top DFIR certifications (GNFA, GCFE, GCFW, GSEC, EnCE, X-PERT) and is a two-time NetWars champion and recipient of Forensic 4:cast Investigator of the Year. Known for "I code stuff" pragmatism, he publishes forensic tools and analysis techniques that prioritize reproducible, auditable results for investigations. Based in Indianapolis, he leverages a computer science and math background to translate complex technical artifacts into courtroom-ready evidence and operational improvements. Colleagues rely on him for rare combination of law enforcement experience, instructor-level pedagogy, and active tool development.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Math, Math at Youngstown State UniversityBS Computer Science/Math, BS Computer Science/Math at Roosevelt University
English, c#, rust
Github Skills (200)
invocation10
firmware10
padding10
iis-logs10
install-script10
csv-parsing10
command-line-tool10
in-progress10
argparse10
compound10
json10
octoprint10
searching10
command-line10
exceptionless10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
EricZimmerman/Srum
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 release, 47 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 10 months
EricZimmerman/MFTECmd
Jun 2018 - Oct 2022
Parses $MFT from NTFS file systems
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 173 commits in 4 years 5 months
file-systemsrustntfsforensicsmft
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