NorthSec 2025

Jake Mayhew

Jake Mayhew is an experienced information security professional who currently serves as the technical lead for the offensive security team at UPMC. Before serving on an internal red team, he spent several years in consulting delivering security tests for clients in finance, healthcare, retail, critical infrastructure/nuclear energy, and law. He holds the OSCE3 (OSED, OSWE, OSEP), OSCP, CRTO, and OSDA certifications and loves to assist others in their cybersecurity learning path. Jake is one of the founding members of Applied Technology Academy's Asymmetric Training Group (ATG), and has a passion for sharing real-world knowledge and cutting-edge solutions with his students. Jake has led & co-led offensive security trainings including the PEN-200 OSCP training at BlackHat USA.


Sessions

05-15
13:00
30min
Red Team Road Rage: Weaponizing Vulnerable Drivers to Blind EDR
Jake Mayhew

Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) tools are becoming more and more sophisticated, requiring attackers (both good & evil) to work ever harder to subvert them. This talk will address the architecture of EDR solutions (with a focus on kernel-mode components), the various sources of telemetry, and how an attacker can leverage 3rd-party vulnerable drivers to blind an EDR agent. The audience should walk away with a deeper understanding of the inner workings, capabilities, and limitations of market-leading EDR tools.

Red team
Ville-Marie
05-15
16:00
30min
Red Team Q&A
Charles F. Hamilton (Mr.Un1k0d3r), Jeremy Miller, Jake Mayhew, Dorota Kozlowska

Q&A Panel for the Red Team block

Red team
Ville-Marie