Ant has always, always, felt a need to understand what makes things tick. Whether it was pulling apart his toys as a child, first learning to code at around six years old on a BBC Micro in the early 90s, building custom PCs for pocket money as a pre-teen, making websites, or transplanting car engines – he just had to know the \u201chow\u201d,
\nthe \u201cwhy\u201d, and the \u201ccould it be made to work differently\u201d. Sometimes things still work when he\u2019s done with them.<\/p>\n
Whilst he may have always been one at heart, Ant finally felt he became a Proper HackerTM relatively late in life, working as a Security Consultant \/ Penetration Tester after achieving a BSc (First Class Hons) in Mathematics and Computing as a mature student in 2015. He has since found himself earning (and in many cases lapsing) numerous certifications, such as OSCP, CREST CRT, QSTM \/ CHECK CTM, AWS-SAA\/DVA\/SCS, and others.<\/p>\n
In 2018 Ant was recruited to teach Advanced & Specialist Hacking courses in addition to Penetration Testing and Red Team exercises. He has since built and delivered hands on training to crowds from just a few to over a hundred people at dozens of leading international conferences, including Black Hat USA\/Europe\/Asia\/SecTor, BruCON, OWASP, NullCon, NorthSec, CPX360 and many others, numerous in-house private deliveries, and countless live online virtual events. He specialises in Enterprise Traditi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11790,"template":"","speaker-type":[],"class_list":["post-11789","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n