Summary
John Harper is an information security professional and sales engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience helping organizations identify and mitigate complex threats across enterprise, cloud, and industrial environments. He has led penetration testing, red/blue team operations, threat modeling, and reverse engineering initiatives for large utilities, financial institutions, and Fortune 500 companies, and currently applies that expertise to identity security at Silverfort. Founder of the long-running community conference Hackers Teaching Hackers, he emphasizes hands-on learning and cross-discipline collaboration to elevate practitioner skills. Known for pragmatic "living off the land" techniques and custom tooling, he pairs deep technical craft with the ability to translate risks into business-ready solutions. Based in Columbus, Ohio, John blends technical leadership with public teaching and community building to make security more accessible and practical.
11 years of coding experience