Karl Fosaaen

Bio: As a Senior Director at NetSPI, Karl leads the Cloud Penetration Testing service line and oversees NetSPI’s Portland, OR office. Karl holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and is approaching 15 years of consulting experience in the security industry. Karl spends most of his research time focusing on Azure security and contributing to the NetSPI blog. As part of this research, Karl created the MicroBurst toolkit (https://github.com/Netspi/Microburst) to house many of the PowerShell tools that he uses for testing Azure. In 2021, Karl co-authored the book ‘Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers’ with David Okeyode. Over the years, Karl has held the Security+, CISSP, and GXPN certifications. Since DEF CON 19, Karl has spent most of his conference time selling merchandise as a Goon on the Merch (formerly SWAG) team.