Stephen Hilt
Principal Threat Researcher
Greater Chattanooga United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Hilt is a Principal Threat Researcher with 12+ years specializing in threat actor analysis, malware investigation, and industrial control system (ICS/SCADA) security. Based in Greater Chattanooga, he has led high-impact research at Trend Micro and previously at Digital Bond, where he contributed Nmap scripts for ICS protocols and co-authored Hacking Exposed Industrial Control Systems. A sought-after speaker at Black Hat, RSA, and HITB, his work has twice been named among Dark Reading’s top hacks of the year. Stephen blends hands-on offensive tinkering—“breaking things and rebuilding them with extras”—with practical defense, and he also advises the School of Computing at Southern Illinois University, keeping a foot in both academic and operational communities.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.), Computer Science, Associate of Arts (A.A.), Computer Science at John A. Logan CollegeBachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, CarbondaleJoliet Junior College
Github Skills (20)
siemens10
enumeration10
cybersecurity10
scada10
security10
ethernet10
telegram10
bond10
pentesting10
industrial-automation10
modbus10
plc10
protocols8
dfinity8
honeypot8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sjhilt/Nmap-NSEs
Oct 2014 - Apr 2019
Contributions:27 commits, 17 pushes, 9 comments in 4 years 7 months
sjhilt/recipes
May 2020 - Nov 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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