GrayHats

About Us

UW Bothell's student-led cybersecurity club. Hands-on learning in tools, techniques, and concepts. All skill levels and majors welcome.

Red Team

Mon 1:30 – 3:30 PM

Master offensive security. Exploit vulnerabilities, do CTF challenges, and learn to think like a threat actor.

General Meetings

Fri 12:00 – 2:00 PM

Workshops, lectures, and industry specialist speakers from places like Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon and more.

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CCDC Training

Fri 2:00 – 4:00 PM

Compete and defend. Learn network hardening, incident response, and Active Directory defense to train for PRCCDC.

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Officers

Blake Bedford

President

Cybersecurity-focused computer science student with experience in secure development, networking, cloud, automation, and web security. Skilled in Rust, Python, and Bash, with projects spanning encrypted systems, network defense, and web applications.

Aidan Messmer

Vice President

Software Engineering major at the University of Washington Bothell. I have a passion for cybersecurity and learning new things. Some of my projects include a homelab and homelab network segmentation, custom Minecraft client, and Linux scripting/automation. I have knowledge in C#, Go, C++.

Vinisha Bala Dhayanidhi

Treasurer

CSSE and Math major at UWB

Melissa Ryan

Party City

Software engineering major at the University of Washington Bothell with a passion for math, cybersecurity, and creative problem-solving.

Alex Liao

Public Relations

Sophomore at University of Washington Bothell

Advisors

Brent Lagesse

Club Advisor

My primary research interest is security in emerging environments. I am currently exploring topics such as secure machine learning in smart spaces and privacy in sensor-rich environments.