Our Friends
These are the companies, creators, conferences, and communities we trust, support, and think you should know about.
🏢 Training & Consulting
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Boutique red team and penetration testing firm known for high-quality adversary simulation. Great source of research, tooling, and training content for serious practitioners.
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Black Hills Information Security (BHIS)
One of the most generous organizations in the industry — a penetration testing firm that gives away an enormous amount of free content through webcasts, blog posts, and the Antisyphon Training platform. Chris works here as a pentester.
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Pay-what-you-can and affordable security training from working practitioners. Home of the Ridgeback InfoSec OTF & OTO courses. Exceptional value and an incredible catalog of live and on-demand content.
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Training focused on the defensive side of the house — threat hunting, detection engineering, and building security operations capabilities. A great complement to offensive training.
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Security consulting and training firm offering penetration testing services and practical courses. Focused on making quality security education accessible.
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Security training organization focused on practical, skills-based learning for security professionals across offensive and defensive disciplines.
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Practical blue team training and resources from Hayden Covington of Black Hills Information Security. Noct offers courses on SOC foundations and detection engineering through Antisyphon Training, plus free webcasts and blog posts for analysts looking to build real-world security operations skills.
🎤 Educators & Creators
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YouTube channel delivering approachable, practical cybersecurity content. A great voice for making offensive and defensive security concepts accessible to a wide audience.
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Pentester, educator, and advocate for breaking into the security industry. Phillip's content is honest, practical, and particularly valuable for those looking to build a career in offensive security.
🎪 Conferences
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One of the best security conferences in the country — community-focused, practitioner-driven, and consistently excellent. Held in Deadwood, SD and Denver, CO.
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Omaha-based security conference with a strong technical program and a welcoming community. Home of the Ridgeback InfoSec OTO course each year.
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Regional BSides event serving the Kansas City security community. Great talks, affordable, and a strong representation of Midwest infosec talent.
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A solid regional BSides in central Pennsylvania. Chris has presented here — a well-run event with a good technical program.
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South Carolina's BSides event, bringing together the local and regional security community for talks, workshops, and networking.
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Upstate South Carolina's BSides event — community-organized and practitioner-focused.
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Chicago's BSides event, serving one of the largest security communities in the Midwest.
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European BSides event for the broader international security community.
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Norway's BSides event in the beautiful city of Bergen. Chris is presenting the Pentest Pains talk here in May 2026.