CTO, Prelude Research
David Hunt is the CTO of Prelude. David specializes in building teams which bridge cybersecurity with best-practice technology. Before coming to Prelude, David spent two years at MITRE Corporation in a dual-role as head developer and project lead for the CALDERA adversary emulation framework. David designed CALDERA v2 from the ground up and instrumented a plan which made it the industry leader in open-source breach and simulation. Prior to this work, David spent 15 years in offensive security and management roles, ranging organizations like Rockwell Collins, John Deere, Kenna Security and FireEye. While at FireEye, David personally oversaw the storage and access of Mandiant's threat intelligence data, as the leader of the (then secretive) Nucleus team. Over the years, David has also worked as a contractor for several U.S. intelligence agencies, working domestically and internationally, as a principal security specialist.
Principal Cyber Security Engineer, Prelude Research
Alex Manners is a Principal Cyber Security Engineer at Prelude. Alex blends military cyber operations with a deep infrastructure and software engineering background. Prior to joining Prelude, Alex spent almost two years at The MITRE Corporation as a lead Adversary Emulation engineer and software development manager for the CALDERA adversary emulation framework. He led R&D for the CALDERA framework, designing multiple plugins and the current planning engine, as well as pushing the latest in offensive security tooling into the project. Earlier in Alex's career, he served as a Cyber Warfare Operations officer in the United State Air Force (USAF) where he led large operational support teams and integrated all aspects of offensive and defensive cyber operations into USAF Air Operations Center (AOC) operations. His cybersecurity experience spans the intelligence community, the U.S. military, non-military government, federal contracting, and the private sector.
Prelude Operator is the new kid to the adversary emulation block party. Built by the same people who designed and built the MITRE Caldera framework, Operator is a free and largely open-source desktop platform that aims to make adversary emulation accessible to smaller organizations.
The app includes a library of RATs (agents) which can deploy into the field and supports a modular architecture of plugins and network protocols, including hundreds of TTPs mapped to ATT&CK. In this tool demonstration, we will highlight the key features of Operator and empower people to walk away with a developer-first adversary emulation desktop platform that is end-to-end free & open-source.
