Panel: Briskets or biscuits: how to construct your CTI team

Noortje Henrichs

Noortje works at the Dutch National Centre for Cybersecurity (NCSC) and leads the Threat Analysis team and the Cyber Threat Intelligence team. From collection to dissemination, she is responsible for the execution of all phases of the threat intelligence lifecycle. She aims to deliver relevant and timely information on generic as well as sector-specific digital threats to the NCSC constituency. As part of a national CERT, it is her mission to offer partners, institutions and organizations a complete national threat landscape that combines technical information with tactical context (and vice versa). As a team lead, she underscores the importance of combining different skills and diversity in CTI-teams. She is a frequent speaker on that topic and highlighted the importance of diversity in CTI in the 2024 edition of KPN NLSecure[ID] and in the podcast 'All the Cyber Ladies'.

Hossein Jazi
Hossein Jazi is a senior threat intelligence specialist at Fortinet, where he contributes as an active researcher with interests in APT tracking, malware analysis, cyber threat intelligence, and machine learning. His current efforts are centred on identifying and monitoring APT activities, along with publishing insightful blogs on their operations. In addition to these projects, Jazi is focused on developing proactive techniques to monitor cyber threat actors' actions and collaborating with various partners to enhance cyber threat research capabilities. He holds a Master's degree in computer science and has over 14 years of experience specializing in cybersecurity and APT analysis.

Kathi Whitbey

As the Lead Principal Program Manager for Unit 42, Kathi focuses on cross-team collaboration, reporting on business milestones, process improvements, maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders and partners, evangelizing threat intelligence information sharing, and is the Chief Morale Officer. Kathi is passionate about sharing her story of transition into cybersecurity and working with people to make their own experiences relatable to the world of cyber. Kathi was an integral part of the process of incorporating the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), one of the most successful threat intelligence sharing organizations to date. In addition, she was one of three technical resources from Palo Alto Networks who worked closely with the Girl Scouts of the USA to develop 18 Cybersecurity Badges.

In her free time, Kathi has enjoyed volunteering as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and Girl Scout leader. Kathi has an M.S. degree in information systems and over 25 years of experience in information technology and software development.

Fun fact: Kathi has travelled to 40 different countries, to include living in Djibouti, Africa for 12 months, and running a half marathon in Antarctica.

Righard Zwienenberg

Righard Zwienenberg started dealing with computer viruses in 1988 after encountering the first virus problems. His interest thus kindled he has studied virus behaviour and presented solutions and detection schemes ever since. Starting as an independent consultant, later as R&D Manager at CSE Ltd, as a researcher for ThunderBYTE, as Chief Research Officer at Norman, and currently as Senior Research Fellow at ESET. Over the years he has served in many extra roles in different industry organizations. Currently he is still serving on the board of AVAR, on the Technical Overview Board of the WildList and as the Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of IEEE ICSG. In 2018, Zwienenberg joined the Europol European Cyber Crime Center (EC3) Advisory Group as an ESET representative. Zwienenberg has been a member of CARO since late 1991. He is a frequent speaker at conferences – among these Virus Bulletin, EICAR, AVAR, RSA, InfoSec, SANS, CFET, ISOI, SANS Security Summits, IP Expo, Government Symposia, SCADA seminars – and general security seminars.

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