I have led the Strategic Analysis team at Cisco Talos for over five years. Strategic Analysis focuses on tracking, documenting, and analyzing major trends in the cyber threat landscape, leveraging intelligence relationships, threat hunting, big data, geopolitical expertise, and our close relationship with Talos Incident Response. We publish our findings in a variety of analytical products, including blogs, intelligence bulletins, our quarterly Threat Assessment Reports (TARs), and the Cisco Talos Year in Review. Most recently, I have led my team to fully adopt Synapse for ingesting and analyzing threat intelligence. I previously worked as a senior threat analyst for Cisco Talos, working in the Threat Intelligence & Interdiction Team. I discovered, tracked, and categorized Chinese threat actor groups; translated content from Chinese social media, hacker forums, and research papers; and authored research reports, blog posts, and conference papers.Before pivoting to cybersecurity, I worked as a research analyst at CNA, a federally funded research center in the Washington DC area, where I conducted detailed research on politics, international relations and defense in East Asia, using Mandarin-language sources and produced written analysis for US government clients. I received my BA in International Relations from Kenyon College and my MA in East Asian Studies from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University.
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