Jacob Baines is the lead vulnerability researcher at VulnCheck. With more than a decade of experience, he's conducted research for a wide array of organizations, including VulnCheck, Rapid7, Tenable, Lockheed Martin, and Dragos. His research focuses on discovering and exploiting initial access vulnerabilities. He's credited with more than 100 CVEs, and has presented his research at Black Hat, DEF CON, Infosecurity Europe, and several BSides events. He's an active member of the open source exploit development community and a contributor to Metasploit.