Kyle Barnthouse
Founder And CEO at [redacted]
Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Barnthouse is the founder and CEO of Hephaestus Security Consulting with 13+ years of cybersecurity and IT consulting experience, building tailored network defense programs for diverse clients from his base in Ohio. A former US Army crypto-linguist with an associate degree in Arabic from the Defense Language Institute, he brings rare cultural and linguistic insight to threat analysis and red-team planning. His hands-on background as a freelance SMB consultant and a playful GitHub handle ("durandal") reflect a maker mindset—comfortable both breaking systems to find weaknesses and designing pragmatic fixes. Under his leadership Hephaestus has focused on practical, auditable security controls rather than one-size-fits-all products, and he still mixes technical work with business strategy as CEO. Unexpectedly, he also moonlights as a remote printer repair specialist, a hint at a sense of humor and willingness to solve small everyday problems that keep operations running.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associates, Arabic, Associates, Arabic at Defense Language InstituteComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Roane State Community College
Arabic
Github Skills (2)
durandal10
payload6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gitdurandal/dbd
Jun 2013 - Jan 2016
Durandal's Backdoor
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 7 months
durandalbackdoor
gitbrew/simple-ducky
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
Simple-Ducky Payload Generator v1.1.1
Contributions:15 commits in 18 days
v1-1payloadpayload-generatorducky
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