About GS

GS McNamara, MS is a cyber security and intelligence professional who brings his software development background to the table, qualifying him as a purple team member advocating and understanding both the attack and defense sides of application security. He has worked in environments as fast as startups, as small as a sole proprietorship, as large as a Fortune 50, and as challenging as DARPA.

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He started his security education informally through immersion in hacker communities as a teenager, later going on to earn both a master’s degree specializing in Intelligence Technologies and a bachelor’s in Information Security.

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Creating a tech services business while in school gave him an early opportunity to learn the business applications of technology. He hyper focuses his work on the three areas of Information Exploitation, Preservation, and Monetization. His communication style is direct while also having the ability to be diplomatic.

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He has spoken internationally and self published his research through blog posts, news articles, videos, and proof of concept code. He volunteers as a highly trained search and rescue leader specializing in tracking and cold cases.

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GS works remotely from the mountains in Virginia while also traveling frequently.