Will Alexander
Lead Intrusion Analyst at CrowdStrike
Greater Reading Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWill Alexander is a Lead Intrusion Analyst with 13 years of hands-on experience blending offensive and defensive security across government and private sectors, now leading intrusion detection and response at CrowdStrike. He excels in purple teaming—demonstrating real business impact by identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities, then designing fixes before adversaries can act—and has deep expertise in web and infrastructure pentesting, network forensics, SIEM and IDS administration. A seasoned mentor and tool-builder, he’s developed in-house automation and investigation tooling, authored IDS signatures, and discovered critical product bugs while working in large-scale SOC and national-government environments. His certifications (GXPN, GPEN, GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, and former CREST CCT) reflect a rare mix of research, red-team tradecraft and blue-team operations, with long-term experience in C, Python, Perl and PowerShell for practical exploitation and detection work.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Bristol
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Github contributions (5)
nccgroup/IP-reputation-snort-rule-generator
May 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:11 commits in 3 months
wilgeralexander/LinAudit
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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