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Eric Kelly
Director at Fortune 500 Bank. One of about 300 GIAC Security Experts in the world. I lead the response, stay for the technical details, and take an AI-first pass at how the SOC works.
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GIAC Security Expert
GSE #0
DoD bug bounty
Hack the Pentagon
Service
U.S. Army veteran
Current
Director
Created
01 / Made things
Scanner
How Copy, Over?
Play live scanner audio and read a running transcript as transmissions open. Bring your own AI key.
Open the scanner →Playable
Legend of the Binary Chicken
A full-page adventure that should not exist and yet does. Built to see what models could actually finish — then kept because it was more fun than a résumé PDF.
Play it →Current
This dossier
The site as a piece of work, not a container for it. Quiet on purpose.
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02 / Press
- Defense One 30 Oct 2020
How Ethical Hacking Can Make DOD’s Weapon Systems More Secure
The 2019 F-15 test, a year later: crowdsourced pentesting as the way to harden weapons before conflict.
- Military.com 16 Aug 2019
Hackers Find Serious Vulnerabilities in an F-15 Fighter Jet System
Air Force confirms the TADS work — the box off the jet, not a flying F-15. The findings still count.
- Newsweek 15 Aug 2019
Ethical Hackers Sabotage F-15 Fighter Jet, Expose Serious Vulnerabilities
The same Las Vegas range. Synack, Hack the Pentagon, and bugs that could shut the TADS down.
- Washington Post 14 Aug 2019
Hackers just found serious vulnerabilities in a U.S. military fighter jet
Synack’s live Hack the Pentagon team at DEF CON. First physical access to an F-15 TADS on the range.
- 2019
Hack the Pentagon
Synack live event in Las Vegas. Same program, different city.
- 2018
Hack the Pentagon
Synack live event at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. — the building, not the nickname. Department of Defense bug bounty, on the grounds.
- 2018
GIAC Security Expert · GSE #204
One of roughly 300 GSEs worldwide. GIAC’s most demanding credential. Renewed through 2030.
- 2016–2018
CCDC Midwest Red Team
Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. The unfriendly side of the wire.
- WGEL 5 Aug 2015
Eric Kelly Wins US Cyber Challenge Competition
Illinois Cyber Elite CTF at Moraine Valley. Four-person team, first place, a thousand-dollar scholarship.
- 2015
US Cyber Challenge CTF
Capture-the-flag winner. Early proof that the technical details were the point.
- 2015
Hack the Arch CTF
Team lead. A Midwestern classic, run the way a CTF should be run.
- Chicago Tribune 3 Mar 2014
Illinois hacking competition draws cybersecurity sleuths of tomorrow
Quoted by name after Cyber Aces at Moraine Valley. Iraq veteran. “I’m ready for my education. This is what I want to do.”
About
03 / Operator
I run incident response like a craft: fast when it has to be, careful when it matters, and allergic to theater.
GIAC Security Expert #204 — one of about 300 worldwide. Army veteran, combat deployment OIF 06–07, NCO Academy leadership award at Fort Campbell. I still like the packet more than the slide.