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Practitioners, not career instructors.

Everyone here still does the work they teach. That is the difference between a curriculum recorded in 2021 and someone who broke something last week.

  • Sedric Louissaint

    Founder

    Ten CVEs, 100+ responsibly disclosed zero-days, and a professional MMA record: the person who built the CMTP because nobody built it for him.

    • 10 CVEs
    • 100+ zero-days disclosed
    • 15+ certifications

    Sedric has over a decade of hands-on technical and management experience across security engineering, penetration testing, and risk. He holds an Associate and a Bachelor's in Information Systems Technology with a Cybersecurity specialization, a Technical Certificate as an IT Client Specialist, and more than fifteen IT and cybersecurity certifications.

    He has been credited with 10 CVEs and has responsibly reported over 100 zero-day vulnerabilities. He is also a professional MMA fighter and entrepreneur, the discipline that shows up in how the program is run.

    Subject-matter expertise

    • Web Application Security
    • Mobile Application Security
    • API Security
    • IoT Security
    • Cloud Security
    • Governance, Risk & Compliance
    • Information Security
    • Penetration Testing
    • Vulnerability Assessment
    • Incident Response
    • Disaster Recovery Planning
    Connect with Sedric on LinkedIn
  • Forrest Kasler

    Penetration Tester & Instructor

    Full-time penetration tester and social engineer who has presented at Black Hat USA and Wild West Hackin' Fest.

    • Black Hat USA speaker
    • Wild West Hackin' Fest speaker
    • Testing since 2014

    Forrest is a full-time penetration tester, social engineer, and cybersecurity educator. He taught himself to program at twelve from a C++ tutorial, spent a stretch as a CPA, and has been testing full time since 2014.

    He has released open-source hacking tools and presented at Black Hat USA and Wild West Hackin' Fest. His research covers NAC bypasses, MFA bypasses, OSINT, phishing frameworks, email security bypasses, and malware design.

    Subject-matter expertise

    • Penetration Testing
    • Social Engineering
    • NAC & MFA Bypass
    • OSINT
    • Phishing Frameworks
    • Malware Design
    Connect with Forrest on LinkedIn
  • Mario Dawson

    Program & Portfolio Test Manager

    Thirty years of SDLC testing leadership: building, training, and leading test teams through global system conversions.

    • 30+ years in QA
    • Global system conversions

    Mario has more than thirty years of experience testing across the software development lifecycle. He builds, trains, and leads test teams, and has run global system conversions end to end.

    His work covers Quality Engineering Assessments, training manuals, OFAC compliance procedures, SOX documentation, use cases and test scripts, and test plans and strategies.

    Subject-matter expertise

    • Quality Engineering
    • SDLC Testing
    • OFAC Compliance
    • SOX Documentation
    • Test Strategy
    Connect with Mario on LinkedIn
  • Zakkery Gage

    IT Leader

    Fifteen years of enterprise program management across SOC 2, GDPR, NIST, and CIS, with the automation record to match.

    • 15+ years enterprise PM
    • 99.99% uptime
    • 70% faster resolution

    Zakkery is an IT leader with over fifteen years of enterprise project and program management experience, working across SOC 2, FTC, GDPR, CIS, and NIST frameworks.

    His focus is AI-driven automation, where he has cut ticket resolution times by up to 70% and improved system uptime to 99.99%.

    Subject-matter expertise

    • SOC 2
    • GDPR
    • NIST
    • CIS Controls
    • AI-driven Automation
    Connect with Zakkery on LinkedIn

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