Ryan Rutan

Senior Director, Community (Synack Red Team)

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Ryan Rutan is a technology leader and entrepreneur with experience spanning cybersecurity, startups, and go-to-market strategy. He focuses on helping organizations scale innovation, simplify complex technical challenges, and build modern approaches to growth, security, and operational resilience.

Recent research

What CREST Means for Your Next Synack Engagement
CREST Helps Raise the Bar for the Researchers Behind Your Pentest When a cybersecurity company tells you its testers are vetted, what does that actually mean? Most of the time, it means the company ran its own screening, trusted its own judgment, and hoped you’d trust it too. That works, right up until the pentest

Validating AI Pentesting with Explicit Signals from Synack Red Team
When you hire an elite Red Team, you start with an implicit signal of their talent. You review their resumes, their standing within the research community, certifications with trusted vendors like OffSec and CREST. You assume they can navigate your specific tech stack and pivot through your environment. But in offensive security, assumptions are liabilities.

More research by Ryan Rutan

See Your Cyber Defenses with an Adversarial Perspective Using Red Teaming and Pentesting
The Complementary Benefits of Red Teaming and Pentesting Deploying Complementary Cybersecurity Tools In our previous article, we talked about the growing number of cybersecurity tools available on the market and how difficult it can be to choose which ones you need to deploy to protect your information and infrastructure from cyberattack.

How the 1,500+ Synack Red Team Members Solve Your Most Critical Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
The Synack Red Team is made up of hundreds of the best pentesters and tech practitioners in the world, hailing from countries across the globe with a variety of skills, who coordinate their efforts to conduct pentesting engagements and other security tests for Synack’s clientele.

Red Teaming and Pentesting: Understanding the Differences and Values of Both
By Kim Crawley As technology is becoming more complex and smarter, attackers are growing increasingly sophisticated and cunning. That’s why it’s important to take an offensive approach to security.

Synack + Hack The Box: Opening Doors to CyberSecurity Diversity
Let’s face it. One of the most humbling realizations for most companies is that, regardless of their size, money, or stature, they rarely get the opportunity to choose which cyber threat will end up on their doorstep.