Have you seen this cute ghost inside of a hexagon? The logo is for Specter Ops, Inc., a new cyber-security consulting firm. Today’s the company’s launch day. The press release is here. The website is here.

Today, Specter Ops, Inc. is 13 people who have given me technical guidance on Cobalt Strike, trained Cobalt Strike users, and made amazing contributions to the security community (to include open source projects and content Cobalt Strike users benefit directly from).

In terms of services: Specter Ops, Inc. has three focus areas: We offer adversary simulation services (red team ops), breach assessments (hunt), and adversary resilience assessments. The last one is particularly interesting. Resilience assessments help harden large Active Directory environments by identifying lateral movement vectors and measuring an organization’s adherence to the principle of least privilege. It’s good stuff. We offer assessments, staff augmentation, training, and program development in each of these areas.

The firm is new, but if you check out the team page, you’ll see there are several familiar faces. You’ll also note I said “we”. I have responsibilities at Specter Ops, Inc. as well. I’m the company’s President and my duties include: strategic guidance, mentoring, and starting conversations with “I remember when I was technical…”.

Day-to-day, I’m still in a Strategic Cyber LLC office space. I continue to argue with procurement people about contract details (yes, really), provide support to my users, and develop Cobalt Strike. This continues to happen under the Strategic Cyber LLC banner. Nothing’s changed here.

For Cobalt Strike users, this is exciting. Specter Ops, Inc. is an official “go to” for Cobalt Strike training and offers services that Strategic Cyber LLC never had the man-power to do. If you’d like engage Specter Ops, Inc., direct your queries to [email protected].

I want to say thank you to each member of the Specter Ops, Inc. team. Thank you for taking the next steps of your career with this firm. I look forward to building an amazing company with you and I’m very excited for the things that will come next. I’m also very proud of all of you for pulling together this launch.

Onwards!