Jared Atkinson
Founder And Host at SpecterOps
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJared Atkinson is a cybersecurity leader and founder with 12 years of experience bridging hands-on digital forensics and strategic technology leadership. As CTO at SpecterOps and founder/host of the Detection: Challenging Paradigms podcast, he blends operational expertise with public-facing education to shape incident response practice. He created Invoke-IR, an influential research hub focused on Windows forensics and open-source tooling—most notably contributing the foundational C# code for PowerForensics, a live-disk analysis framework. His background as a USAF Cyberspace Operations Officer informs a disciplined, mission-oriented approach to threat hunting and defensive engineering. Jared also teaches graduate cybersecurity courses and holds an MS in Information Security and Assurance, reflecting a commitment to translating deep technical research into reproducible community capabilities.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies, History and Business, Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies, History and Business at Arizona State UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Information Security and Assurance, Master of Science (M.S.), Information Security and Assurance at Western Governors University
Github Skills (6)
filesystem10
csharp10
ntfs10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
struct9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Invoke-IR/PowerForensics
Mar 2015 - Apr 2018
PowerForensics provides an all in one platform for live disk forensic analysis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 261 commits, 68 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jared appears to be responsible for the initial setup and fundamental structure of the project. The initial commit introduced the core code and file structures. Subsequent commits show a focus on building out the foundation, including implementing structs and methods for interacting with NTFS structures. The user demonstrated skills in C# and the .NET Framework by developing code for live disk forensic analysis.
forensicforensic-analysisall-in-onesecuritydisk
Invoke-IR/Uproot
Oct 2014 - Feb 2016
Currently not updated for WMIEvent module...
Contributions:118 commits, 62 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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