Michael Taggart
Summary
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RockstarMichael Taggart is an information security professional, technology educator, and founder with 11 years of experience, currently Principal Cofounder at The Taggart Institute and Senior Cybersecurity Researcher at UCLA Health. He leads threat hunting, adversarial simulation, and detection engineering efforts while developing training materials to elevate Security Operations capabilities. A self-taught technologist with an open-source approach, he builds unconventional tooling—his OffensiveNotion project even prototypes a Notion-based remote command framework that explores creative C2 and persistence techniques. His prior roles as Director of Technology and educator, coupled with an M.Ed in School Leadership and a BA in English, make him adept at translating complex security concepts into effective curricula. Based in Los Angeles, he blends hands-on Linux, network, and software development skills with a passion for using technology for high-impact causes.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (22)
process-injection10
notion-api10
rust10
scripting9
base649
shell9
script9
sh9
cli8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
commandline8
linux8
commandline-interface8
windows8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mttaggart/OffensiveNotion
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Notion as a platform for offensive operations
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 1 review, 331 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael focused on building a remote command execution framework leveraging Notion. Their commits show the development of a Python-based agent, including the creation of pages, block retrieval, and the execution of shell commands. The user implemented file downloading, basic process listing, and macOS/Linux persistence mechanisms. They also created basic S3 and Azure blob upload functionality.
offensivenotion
mttaggart/python-cs
Aug 2015 - Sep 2018
Computer Science lessons using Python
Contributions:54 commits, 3 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 years 1 month
pythoncomputer-sciencescience
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