Nick Frichette is a penetration tester and team lead at State Farm insurance, where he’s worked for more than five years. He’s also the maintainer of hackingthe.cloud. He holds security and solutions architect AWS certifications, and in his spare time, he conducts vulnerability research at Hacking the Cloud. Nick graduated from Illinois State University in 2017, earning a degree in computer science. Join Corey and Nick as they talk about the various kinds of cloud security researchers and touch upon offensive security, why Nick decided to create Hacking the Cloud, how AWS lets security researchers conduct penetration testing in good faith, some of the more interesting AWS exploits Nick has discovered, how it’s fun to play keep-away with incident response, why you need to get legal approval before conducting penetration testing, and more.