Brandon DeVault is a Principal Security Author at Pluralsight, specializing in blue team operations, incident response, and threat hunting. A member of the Florida Air National Guard's Mission Defense Team, he works as a threat hunter defending North American air tracks. Prior to joining Pluralsight, Brandon worked with Elastic as an Education Architect creating and delivering security content. He also served two deployments in Afghanistan with Special Operations Command on deployable communications teams. With expertise in satellite and radio technologies, system and network administration, Brandon holds GCIA, GCED, and Security+ certifications. He's also passionate about hardware hacking and hiking.