Jacob Woodby is a Principal Product Researcher at Huntress, specializing in SIEM, detection engineering, and adversary tradecraft. With more than a decade of cybersecurity experience spanning threat hunting, incident response, digital forensics, and offensive security, Jacob brings an attacker's mindset and an investigator's attention to detail to building better cyber defenses.
Before joining Huntress, Jacob served as a Principal Threat Hunter, leading investigations and developing threat-hunting capabilities across enterprise IT, OT, and IoT environments. His career began in law enforcement, where he worked as a police officer and network engineer/ forensic investigator, receiving specialized digital forensics training through the U.S. Secret Service's National Computer Forensics Institute.
Today, Jacob turns real attacker behavior into high-fidelity detections and new Huntress capabilities that help security teams find threats faster and cut through the noise. His favorite cybersecurity tip "think like an attacker, investigate like a detective, and never underestimate the value of having the right people in your corner."
Jacob's favorite thing about working at Huntress. "The people, hands down." As a researcher, Jacob gets to dream up ideas that sound crazy, overly ambitious, or downright impossible. He works alongside teammates who ask, "How do we make that happen?" instead of "Can we do that?"
Off the clock, he's with his wife and kids, camping, riding wave runners, gaming, or on a road trip to Disney or Universal.
