Modern Threat Hunting
Channel: FIRST
Date: 2021-06-24

Speaker: Vicente Diaz (VirusTotal, ES)

Threat Hunting is one of the most popular techniques used by security analysts for all kinds of investigations. It is both science and, to some degree, inspiration. However in the last years the security industry has developed new tools and techniques that can dramatically improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our Threat Hunting. In particular, similarity and automatic Yara generation are key when dealing with large amounts of data. In this workshop we will go through the process of Threat Hunting and showcase how to leverage new techniques available for analysts to step our research up to the next level. 

About the Speaker
Vicente is a specialist in Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting, and recently joined the VirusTotal team in Google as Threat Intelligence Strategist and security engineer. 

He holds a degree in Computer Science and an MsC in Artificial Intelligence. He was e-crime manager in S21sec for 5 years and deputy director for EU in Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis team for almost 10 years doing APT analysis and Threat Hunting. He was responsible for the APT Intelligence Reporting service.