Jake Williams

Jake Williams (aka MalwareJake) is a seasoned security researcher with decades of experience in the technology and security industries. Jake is a former startup founder, former senior SANS instructor and course author, and an intelligence community and military veteran. He loves forensics, incident response, cyber threat intelligence, and offensive methodologies. Today, Jake is an IANS faculty member, an independent security consultant, and is performing security-focused research to benefit the broader community with a special emphasis on automating security tasks with AI/ML. He has twice won the DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3) annual digital forensics challenge and is the recipient of the NSA Exceptional Civilian Service Award.