Jacob Krasnov is a cybersecurity-focused executive and engineer with seven years of experience bridging military, aerospace, and commercial security programs as CEO of BC Security and former Product Security Manager at Boeing. He combines hands-on offensive tooling work—contributing enhancements to the widely used post-exploitation Empire framework—with strategic responsibility for cyber architecture across multi-billion-dollar aviation and weapons portfolios. His background in the USAF and roles in operational test and program management give him uncommon depth in weapon-system risk analysis, test governance, and program-level contracting. Jacob holds an MBA and an astronautical engineering BS, and is known for translating red-team techniques into practical product security controls that improve system resilience in deployed field systems.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor's of Science, Astronautical Engineering at United States Air Force Academy
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, Finance, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, Finance at University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Empire is a post-exploitation and adversary emulation framework that is used to aid Red Teams and Penetration Testers.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Contributions:33 reviews, 26 commits, 31 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jacob focused on enhancing the Empire framework, a post-exploitation tool. Their contributions involved updating obfuscation techniques, improving the default response, and modifying core agent functionality. The user also integrated reflective loading capabilities, which enabled the loading of binaries within the agent, expanding the tool's capabilities. Furthermore, the user integrated csharp agent options, and dotnet version selection, to help enhance the security testing capabilities of the tool.
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
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Jacob Krasnov - Chief Executive Officer at BC Security