↑ "Brakeing Down Security Podcast: Active Defense and the ADHD Distro with Ben Donnelly"."DARPA'S Cyber Tools: We have had our hands on DARPA's distribution platform for cyber defense tools". LLC, provides insights to our readers here She publishes atCTOvision com forOODA (). ↑ professional, ChrisScottResearch Director at OODA LLCChris Scott is an experienced department of defense enterprise technology DoD, business executive with a long running track record of fielding proven technologies into large organizations She interacts with senior officials, I.Cyber Challenge and San Jose State University Hosted Successful Cyber Security Competition". ↑ "News, Tips, & Achievements Archive".↑ "Student CyberPatriots head to competition | The Spokesman-Review".↑ "Rogers cyber teams advance in nationals | The Spokesman-Review".↑ "Teens help with Christmas Bureau child care | The Spokesman-Review".Recently he has released a new web venture under the name SecRate.io. ĭonnelly is also the founder of Literally Nothing LLC, a holding company for projects in various subdomains of software engineering and related topics. It holds projects including Ball & Chain,, and TALOS Active Defense. He is the founder and CEO of Promethean Information Security, a cybersecurity company that develops computer network operations technologies. Entrepreneurship ĭonnelly has started at least two companies to hold his projects and personal ventures. In many circles Bcrypt, Scrypt, and/or Argon2 are considered to be the best possible modern solutions to the problem of storing and retrieving passwords securely. ĭonnelly is a vocal opponent of "time hard" hashing algorithms such as Bcrypt. This project is owned by his company Promethean Information Security. ĭonnelly created TALOS Active Defense (formerly MAD), an active defense framework much like a Metasploit for computer network defenders. His contributions led to his inclusion as a co-author of the sub-field defining book Offensive Countermeasures: The Art of Active Defense. He became project lead, contributing up to 40% of the tooling within the distribution. In 2013 while working at Black Hills Information Security, Donnelly worked on the "Active Defense Harbinger Distribution", a joint venture with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Early career ĭonnelly was a firefighter in the Spokane area during and after college for a time.
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He presented on Ball & Chain during his and Tim Tomes' Derb圜on 2014 talk "Ball and Chain: A New Paradigm in Stored Password Security". Ball & Chain is proposed as a replacement to the widespread practice of hashing passwords with a cryptographic hashing algorithm. In his sophomore year at Eastern Washington University, Donnelly invented a novel cryptosystem designed for the secure storage of passwords.
He was accepted into the United States Air Force Academy Preparatory School but did not take up the place due to death of his father at age 45.
ĭonnelly sought to attend the United States Air Force Academy in preparation for a career as an aircraft pilot. He also went on to win the US Cyber Challenge's Western Regional CTF with the highest team and individual national score. He was the champion of SANSFIRE Netwars 2013. It was at this conference that Donnelly was offered a job working at Black Hills Information Security which he accepted. įollowing his graduation from high school, he was invited to compete in the first annual SANS Netwars Tournament of Champions at SANSCDI 2012. Rogers High School that reached the national semi-finals in their first year competing and the following year took second place nationally, and first place in all of the AFJROTC. Īt around the age of 17 he was part of a CyberPatriot team from John R. In high school Donnelly participated in cadet organizations including the Civil Air Patrol and the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (AFJROTC). It was here that he began to gain notoriety for success in a variety of unrelated skill areas. His family eventually moved back out to Spokane around his 13th birthday. He was raised initially in the Spokane area before moving to the outskirts of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was granted dual-citizenship with both countries. He was the first son to an American father Kevin Donnelly and Canadian mother Catherine. Donnelly was born in Spokane, Washington State.
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