Adam Pennington

Adam Pennington

Instructor
MITRE ATT&CK® Lead

Adam Pennington (@_whatshisface) leads ATT&CK® at The MITRE Corporation and collected much of the intelligence leveraged in creating ATT&CK's initial techniques.

Adam Pennington's Courses
MITRE ATT&CK Defender™ (MAD) ATT&CK® Cyber Threat Intelligence Certification Training
MITRE ATT&CK Defender™ (MAD) ATT&CK® Cyber Threat Intelligence Certification Training

Analysts and researchers gain hands-on instruction directly from MITRE’s experts in this MITRE ATT&CK Defender™ ...

Intermediate
3 CEU/CPE Hours Available
About Adam Pennington

Adam Pennington (@_whatshisface) leads ATT&CK® at The MITRE Corporation and collected much of the intelligence leveraged in creating ATT&CK's initial techniques.

Adam is a member of the core ATT&CK® team and the editor in chief for the ATT&CK® Blog. He has spent over a decade with MITRE studying and preaching the use of deception for intelligence gathering. Adam has presented and published several venues, including FIRST CTI, USENIX Security, and ACM Transactions on Information and System Security.

Before joining MITRE, Adam was a researcher at Carnegie Mellon's Parallel Data Lab and earned his B.S. and M.S degrees in computer science and electrical and computer engineering and the 2017 Alumni Service Award from Carnegie Mellon University.