
Ben Lister
Threat Research Engineer
Ben is a Threat Research Engineer on the Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) team at NetSPI. His role involves aggregating and analysing threat data to help direct the BAS solution to be representative of the current threat landscape. He has years of experience penetration testing before moving to a detection engineering role eventually running a detection engineering team for an MSSP and transitioning to a role in Tactical Threat Intelligence. Ben graduated from University of Manchester with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics.
More By Ben Lister

Ransomware
Webinar Recap: Everything You Wish You Didn’t Have to Know About Ransomware
September 23, 2025
Learn about the evolving ransomware landscape, including how attackers operate, the roles within the ransomware economy, and actionable strategies to strengthen your defenses.
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Vulnerability Management
Impact Analysis: regreSSHion OpenSSH Vulnerability (CVE-2024-6387)
July 2, 2024
Read The NetSPI Agent’s take on the impact and exploitability of the regreSSHion OpenSSH vulnerability that could lead to unauthenticated RCE.
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