Jorge Orchilles
Assistant Professor
Senior Director, Readiness and Proactive Security at Verizon
Specialities
Offensive Operations
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About Jorge
Jorge Orchilles is a SANS Principal Instructor, course author, and cybersecurity executive who leads Readiness and Proactive Security at Verizon, overseeing Exposure and Vulnerability Management, Penetration Testing, Red Team, Purple Team, and AI Red Team functions. He co-authored, in the past, SEC565: Red Team Operations and Adversary Emulation and teaches courses spanning adversary emulation, purple teaming, penetration testing, and incident response across the SANS curriculum. His ability to connect enterprise-scale security operations with hands-on adversary emulation gives students a practical understanding of how offensive security programs operate in mature organizations and how red team activities translate into measurable defensive improvements.
Press & Media
Recognitions
- SCYTHE / Open-Source Framework / Ongoing Purple Team Exercise Framework (PTEF)
- The C2 Matrix / Community Project / Ongoing Command-and-Control Framework Evaluation Resource
- Red Canary SecOps Weekly / Guest / 2026 Using the 2026 Threat Detection Report for Purple Team Exercises and Adversary Emulation
- NetSPI / Podcast Guest / 2025 Advancing Exposure Management and the Evolution of Proactive Security
- SecurityBrief Australia / Industry News / 2025 Tenable Adds AI to VPR for Sharper Real-Time Risk Detection
- SC World / Industry Feature / 2025 How Vulnerability Management Evolves into Exposure Management
- FIRST / Industry Standard Specification / 2019 Co-author of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) v3.1
- Book Author / Microsoft Press / 1st Edition, 2010 Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator's Reference
- RSA Conference / Speaker / Various Years Find all RSA presentations from Jorge here