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RedTeam Raw, Episode #2: Jean-Francois Maes on how he became a SANS Instructor and Offensive Cyber Security Expert (RedTeamer)

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In the second episode of RedTeam Raw, Picnic’s Director of Global Intelligence, Manit Sahib, sits down with certified SANS instructorauthor, researcher, consultant, and rock star RedTeamer Jean-François Maes, known on Twitter as @Jean_Maes_1994. Based in Belgium, Jean-François is the founder of redteamer.tips and is an avid contributor to the offensive security community. He is currently a security researcher at HelpSystems where he aids the Cobalt-Strike team in developing new features.

We discuss how he got into InfoSec and became a SANS instructor; the difference between pentesting, Red Teaming, and Purple Teaming; the most common ways of gaining a foothold as a RedTeamer; a RedTeam story with flowers from Jean-François; his tool Clippi-B; how he manages his time; motivations and resources for becoming a hacker; advice for getting into the industry and being able to stand out; Jean’s biggest challenge at the moment, and where he sees the industry going.

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VanishID was founded in 2019 on a simple but urgent observation: enterprise security had become extraordinarily sophisticated at protecting systems, and almost entirely blind to protecting the people behind them. The company’s continuous, comprehensive, and turnkey delivery combines agentic AI with OSINT expertise to monitor, remove, and mitigate digital exposure across the external identity layer outside the perimeter, requiring zero effort from security teams or the people they protect.

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