Andy Patel Email & Phone Number

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Researcher, writer, spokesperson at @withsecure. Artificial Intelligence thought leadership. Prompt Engineering. AI art and video. Cyber Security. Disinformation Analysis. Graph Visualisation. Twitter: https://twitter.com/r0zetta Github: https://github.com/r0zettaFeatured op-ed in The Hill:https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4010203-theres-no-such-thing-as-pausing-ai-research/Interviewed by Reuters:https://news.yahoo.com/chatgpt-making-waves-trusted-211047836.htmlhttps://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idOV053215022023RP1Author of creatively malicious prompt engineering:https://labs.withsecure.com/content/dam/labs/docs/WithSecure-Creatively-malicious-prompt-engineering.pdfhttps://www.withsecure.com/en/whats-new/pressroom/ai-generated-texts-could-increase-peoples-exposure-to-threatsMy talk on the publication:https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=tjOowF-CZlUMentioned by Bloomberg:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-11/chatgpt-poses-propaganda-and-hacking-risks-researchers-say#xj4y7vzkgBlog posts:https://blog.f-secure.com/author/andrew-patelf-secure-com/Podcasts:https://cybersecuritysauna.libsyn.com/073-2023-looking-forwardhttps://cybersecuritysauna.libsyn.com/072-2022-wrap-uphttps://cybersecuritysauna.libsyn.com/071-deepfakin-it-ai-content-in-cyber-attackshttps://cybersecuritysauna.libsyn.com/cybersecuritysauna-episode63https://cybersecuritysauna.libsyn.com/064-2021-2022-and-beyond-part-2https://cybersecuritysauna.libsyn.com/022-pro-brexit-twitter-views-amplified-by-the-global-far-righthttps://cybersecuritysauna.libsyn.com/017-year-in-cyber-forecasting-2019-recapping-2018https://cybersecuritysauna.libsyn.com/011-the-rise-of-ai-and-deliberate-deceptionhttps://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/research-saturday/270/transcript

Helsinki Area, Finland

Research and prototyping of machine learning models for cyber security purposes (client-side and backend) on AWS EC2 instances. Specializing in neural network implementations (cnn, rnn, rl), NLP, and graph analysis.Twitter analysis, tooling, and related data science-y stuff.Blogging, public speaking, PR and all that.

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Researcher / cyber security expert in the Technology Outreach division. Activities included blogging, speaking to the press, and research into cyber security-related matters.

Helsinki

● Led a project to replace a legacy cryptographic signing system from 20 million deployed installations before the root certificate expired.● Participated in planning and executing the restructuring of a 70-person organization into teams more capable of working in devops mode.● Led a project to re-design and modernize the security core of a Windows-based anti-virus product and transform it into a cloud-based security solution.● Led a project to create a cloud-based anti-virus security core for Android products and facilitated its inclusion into new F-Secure products.● Created a design for sending key metrics from products running on customer machines to back-ends to create reports and alerts. This data was then used to improve the service level of those products.● Leading ongoing efforts to streamline and automate release processes for all component updates used by F-Secure's security products, improving quality processes along the way.● Leading ongoing efforts to improve test automation and quality practices for a wide range of update-able components used in F-Secure security products.● Co-authored close to a dozen inventions that have been submitted for patenting (one of these patent processes have completed)● Gave a presentation about High Frequency Trading and potential threat impacts to the financial sector.● Participated in various off-site leadership training camps.● Overseeing Windows 10 readiness for F-Secure security products.

● Led a team of 5 developers responsible for development, maintenance and testing of a cross-platform anti-virus scanning engine, a spam scanning engine, an exploit protection component, a reputation-lookup component and in-house cryptography libraries and tools.● Participated in, and facilitated the planning and architecture of new features and components designed to protect computers and mobile devices against malicious threats.● Led and participated in a project to create a new, modern, cross-platform (Windows, Linux, OSX, Android) anti-virus file-scanning engine from scratch.● Organized and conducted a series of presentations and PR activities around the new engine design.● Part of a 2-man project to research the possibility of "AV on a chip".● Worked with malware analysts to identify feature requirements to address new threats.● Created initial design for a new in-house system for malware analysts to create, test and publish detections.● Investigated and managed incoming customer maintenance cases.● Performed research and created the initial project plan for migrating our spam scanning technologies to a new third-party vendor's solution.● Additionally acted as manager for the Mac and Update Release Management teams

● Facilitated an 8-person team using agile scrum and kanban practices.● Participated in planning and executing of the restructuring of an 80-person organization towards agile practices.● Conducted team buildings, retrospectives, planning sessions, daily meetings.

● Created a new key support tool used by all F-Secure products.● Created a mechanism in F-Secure product for submitting samples.● Maintenance and development of quarantine, management agent and automatic update components.

● Created and maintained SSH Tectia Manager Win32 client in C++.● Maintained and added features to the Tectia Manager backend using scheme.

● Built and managed Windows domain infrastructure for a company that grew rapidly from 35 to 180 people.● Planned and managed network infrastructure.● Conducted internal training courses for Perl and using regular expressions.● Built web frontends and SQL backends for a variety of internal systems including IT ordering, IT inventory, user account synchronization (between Windows and Unix), personnel database, legal database and employee lunch voucher systems.

● Built and managed an NT domain for the Large systems Support organization.● Setup and administration of large-scale NT cluster systems.● Maintained a Citrix environment used by Oracle NC (network computer) systems.● Built and maintained a training Lab.● Provided end-user support for Windows systems for a group of 30 people.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Chemistry

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Chemistry

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