Ryan Dewhurst
Founder
Cybersecurity professional with experience across offensive security, threat intelligence, vulnerability research, and deception operations.
His work focuses on how attackers operate in the real world — tracking exploitation activity and vulnerability trends, and building and operating honeypots that capture attacker behavior, tooling, and tradecraft.
He is especially interested in the intersection of AI, vulnerability intelligence, exposure management, and real-world exploitation: observing when vulnerabilities move into active exploitation, prioritizing response with evidence, and using attacker telemetry to improve detection and mitigation.
Over the years he has worked across offensive security research, open source security projects, vulnerability intelligence, and technical leadership roles.
He is also known as the creator of Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA) and WPScan (acquired in 2021).
