Topher Timzen was a Senior Principal Security Engineer and Technical Lead of the Red Team at Oracle. Topher built the Red Team program at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure which became the Red Team for the whole of Oracle.
Topher enjoys asking the difficulty questions of “what keeps you up at night” and turning those nightmares into reality through objective orientated adversary emulation engagements.
Topher mentors engineers into Red Team leadership roles, helps develop emerging Red Team programs across the industry, contributes to open-source Red Team infrastructure, and maintains significant industry influence through conference speaking and leadership of the 1,000+ member Red Team Cabal.
He has spoken at various security conferences including DEF CON, SecTor, ToorCamp, BSides, and Red Team Summit, to name a few. Some of his presentations can be found on Speaker Deck and his CV is here.
He holds a bachelors in Computer Science with an emphasis in Security and Information Assurance from Southern Oregon University. Graduating Summa Cum Laude, Topher instructed courses on malware analysis and memory forensics while also managing the SOU cybersecurity research lab. Mainly focusing on .NET memory hijacking during his studies at university, he has produced tools that allow for new post exploitation attack sequences.
Topher currently holds the following professional certifications:
Topher is also an active contributor to the community and ran the BsidesPDX CTF from 2016 to 2018. He also helped to create a CTF framework that was used for BSidesPDX and it is found at https://github.com/BSidesPDX/bsides-ctf-framework.
Outside of working on research or course material Topher enjoys hiking, mountain biking, playing guitar and discovering new music.