Babak Javadi is the Founder and Director of Research and Development for The CORE Group, a bespoke physical security consulting firm specializing in covert entry, hardware exploitation, red teaming, and professional training. He is a renowned keystone member of professional hacker community. Babak's early community contributions include the co-founding of The Open Organisation of Lockpickers (TOOOL) in 2006 where he served on the Board of Directors for over 13 years, and the building of countless lockpicking villages around the world, including DeepSec, Ekoparty, Hack In The Box, DEF CON and others. In 2018 Babak co-founded the Red Team Alliance (RTA), a joint project between The CORE Group and Red Mesa to raise the bar in practical hands-on training and certification available to security professionals. Babak has also been integrally involved in several professional standards bodies, including the Security Industry Association's OSDP Working Group. As a professional penetration tester with over a decade of field experience, Babak's expertise includes a wide range of disciplines, from high security mechanical cylinders to alarm systems and physical access control platforms. Since 2008 years, Babak has led trainings for enterprise, government agencies, and instructed at numerous events including but not limited to Black Hat, the SANS Institute, and the USMA at West Point.
