Aventiv
Zac Conlin
Penetration Tester | Red Team
I spent years on the blue team investigating incidents before moving to the offensive side — now I help organizations find the gaps before real attackers do.
Reconnaissance
Target Profile
Penetration tester with a background in incident response and systems administration. A degree in Cybersecurity from Brigham Young University, with a minor in Computer Science and a particular interest in AI.
- Name
- Zac Conlin
- Role
- Penetration Tester | Red Team
- Employer
- Aventiv
- Location
- Space Coast, Florida, USA
- Specializations
- ✓ WebApp Pentesting✓ Mobile Pentesting✓ AI✓ DevOps
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Specialties
Current Focus
Where most of my engagement time goes right now.
Web and Mobile Penetration Testing
Hands-on assessments using Burp Suite, BloodHound, and Wireshark to find real-world gaps in web apps, APIs, and mobile clients.
Tool Development
Building and maintaining my own tooling and infrastructure — from SearZ to a growing homelab — to sharpen both offensive and DevOps skills.
Application Security
Bringing blue-team pattern recognition into AppSec reviews, so vulnerabilities get caught before they ship.
Project Management
Implementing, managing, and delegating tasks for the Horizon3 NodeZero Vulnerability Remediation Project.
Selected Work
Projects
Tools and research I've built or maintain.
Vantage Vulnerability Viewer
A web-based vulnerability dashboard and ticketing management system
HomeLab
Media server, pentesting lab, and DevOps playground for learning and experimentation.
SearZ
A self-hosted, privacy-respecting metasearch engine built on SearXNG.
Bettr.
An award-winning 24-hour hackathon project that won "Best Use of AI."
On the Circuit
Conferences
Where you might have run into me.
SaintCon
2025Utah
DEF CON 34
2026Las Vegas, NV
Scoreboard
Competitions
CTF and cyber competition results — the other way I stay sharp.
NCAE VIVID Nationals
Nov 2024
5th (~$10k team prize)
CTFtime All-Time High Rank
Nov 2024
14th in the US
WolvCTF
Mar 2024
6th of 622
NCAE Cybergames Regionals
Mar 2024
2nd place
NCAE VIVID
Mar 2024
6th overall, 2nd in West Region. Advanced to Nationals
GCCCTF
Mar 2024
12th of 255
BYU End of Semester CTF
Dec 2024
Top 15
BYU End of Semester CTF
Dec 2023
6th place
SquareCTF
Nov 2023
11th of 540
BuckeyeCTF
Sep–Oct 2023
11th of 672
CyberPatriot
2018–2019
Gold Tier