Co-founder @SubvertedSec. No limits thinking.

South Africa
Joined September 2018
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AI is genuinely powerful, but only inside structure.  Provided disciplined workflows, deterministic checks and real methodology alongside agentic actions it will triage, chain issues, prove exploitability and produce evidence at an insane scale.  We keep on innovating by bringing the methodology of our expert pentesters into a fast, machine-driven environment.  Human skill is never replaced, just accelerated.
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One of us makes the decisions. One of us has to live with them. We don't talk about which is which. 🤝
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Our Women’s Month initiative led to 483 annual Rebel Access seats being claimed on Subverted Academy. What started as a way to create more access became a powerful reminder of how many women are ready to learn, grow, and build in cybersecurity. Thank you to everyone who helped share it, support it, and make it possible. To every woman who claimed a seat, welcome. We’re excited to have you in the community and proud to be part of your journey.
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We're turning 2! It's been close to 730 days since we set out to start something new, build something big and make an impact. We’re incredibly grateful to every customer who has placed their trust in us, and for all the support and excitement that continues to surround Subverted. Thanks to everyone who's been on this journey with us. Here’s to many more years of building, growing, and making an impact.
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Most security tools are very good at one thing: making you feel busy. Thousands of findings of which 95% are noise. We went the other way. Proactive surfaces what it can prove is exploitable and ships the evidence with it: the request, the response, the steps to reproduce it yourself. Real findings. With the receipts. #Cybersecurity #SecurityTesting #VulnerabilityManagement #ExposureManagement #Subverted
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From the keynote stage to the booth floor, it was great to be part of the conversation at ISC2 Cape Town. Thank you to everyone who joined the session, stopped by our table, and spent time connecting with the team.
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The asset that breaches you is almost always the one nobody remembered owning. Proactive's Recon module continuously maps your external, internal and cloud footprint, including inferred identities. What you get: - Full inventory across your estate - Dynamic discovery of assets - Technology identification - Service exposure - Visual surface graph - Surface change detection This is just the starting point before our Scan and Strike modules can deep dive on your behalf. Book a demo today.
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Training is one thing. Operating under pressure is another. SOCForge is a live SOC battleground where every session challenges you to triage alerts, track a moving threat and defend a live organisation under attack. Book a demo today.
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A good chunk of last week the team debated whether a finding is actually demonstrated or just suspected. Because the moment we ship something we can't reproduce, we've become the noise we're trying to remove. It's a fun problem to have and one we are actively solving with Proactive.
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Your attackers test you every day. So we built an offensive security solution that never stops: continuous discovery and testing, real proof on every finding with a human team to escalate to when you need it. Find it. Prove it. Fix it. Track it. All in Proactive. #ProactiveSecurity #OffensiveSecurity #Subverted #CyberSecurity
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Give your team the structure to learn with purpose. Academy for Teams helps managers guide cyber skills development, assign training and oversee progress with greater clarity and control. Build a stronger technical learning culture. Book a demo today.
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Ulrich Swart retweeted
New course alert! Linux Security Essentials gives SOC analysts the practical Linux knowledge needed for incident response and security investigation, covering distributions, permissions, SUID, sudo, logging, auditd and command-line investigation skills. Start learning now.
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New course alert! Alert Triage and Investigation teaches the most critical SOC analyst skills: how to assess, prioritise, enrich, investigate and make decisions on security alerts efficiently and accurately. Covering the complete triage workflow from alert receipt to closure or escalation. Dive-in today.
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Built for people who want more than surface-level learning. Subverted Academy is where practical online cybersecurity training meets real-world growth, with free courses available to help you get started. Sign up and start learning today.
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Ulrich Swart retweeted
A fragmented offensive security stack causes context loss. Every handoff between tools or vendors is a place where findings get diluted, noise creeps in, prioritisation slips and remediation stalls. We built Proactive to preserve the thread from recon to remediation (and everything in between). Designed to service your entire estate across external, internal, cloud and code. #ProactiveSecurity #OffensiveSecurity #Subverted
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Two ways you can advance your security operations with what we're building at Subverted: 1) Build team-wide technical cybersecurity capability through our Academy 2) Unify and enhance your offensive security operations with Proactive Both are rooted in human experise and making a meaniful difference for you, your team and business. To have a say in where our unified Offensive Security platform goes next, join the our beta program or waitlist. No fluff, just empowerment at scale.
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Five things we believe about offensive security in 2026: 1) The "lone hacker" model doesn't scale, and never really did. 2) Proactive isn't a buzzword. It's a budget line that's finally being defended. 3) Training without operational context is just content. 4) Tool sprawl is a bigger risk than most teams admit. 5) The teams that win are the ones that share what they learn. Everything we're building at Subverted lines up behind those five. #CyberSecurity #Subverted #OffensiveSecurity #ProudlySouthAfrican
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Three reasons teams are moving away from individual training and toward team-based upskilling: 1) Skills don't stick when only one person learns them. 2) Real-world ops need coordinated teams, not lone operators. 3) Budget goes further when training scales across the team, not per seat. Academy for Teams brings SOCForge, LabForge, and team seats into one programme, built for the second model, because that's the one that actually changes outcomes. #CyberSecurity #SecurityTeams
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Something new is loading at Subverted Academy. New defensive courses, hands-on training environments and practical ways for teams to sharpen their cyber skills. First look coming at ITWeb Security Summit, 2 & 3 June. Come find us there. The lab lights are starting to flicker. #Subverted #CyberSecurity Come find us there. The lab lights are starting to flicker. #Subverted #CyberSecurity
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The full Subverted team will be at IT Web Security Summit 2026. Come chat to us about new courses, defensive skills enablement and Academy for Teams. 2 & 3 June | Sandton Convention Centre, JHB. #Subverted #ITWebSecuritySummit #CyberSecurity 2 & 3 June. Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg. See you there. #Subverted #ITWebSecuritySummit #CyberSecurity
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