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Check out my book Code War, available for preorder! https://bit.ly/m/codewar opinionated human 👩💻 Allie Mellen is the author of Code War: How Nations Hack, Spy, and Shape the Digital Battlefield. She is a leading industry analyst who advises Global 2000 organizations on cybersecurity policy and practice, with a focus on detecting and responding to nation-state attacks. Previously, she held engineering and research roles at multiple early-stage technology startups. She spent years conducting research at MIT and Boston University and supported the University of Oxford Business Leaders Programme as a cybersecurity expert. Her cybersecurity career began as a hacker, with her research ultimately featured on stage at the world’s most respected information security event series, Black Hat USA, before she became a hands-on security practitioner. She has also partnered with several government agencies on election security preparations. A featured speaker at many leading security conferences, including RSA Conference, Black Hat, and SANS events, her insights are frequently featured in top business and technology outlets, including NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Read my newsletter, The Latest Breach: https://hackerxbella.substack.com/
Allie supports security and risk professionals, covering security infrastructure and operations to assist clients in building and maturing their threat detection and response strategies. Her coverage includes the people, processes, and tools of the security operations center (SOC); security analysts; security information and event management (SIEM); security user behavior analytics (SUBA); security analytics (SA); security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR); endpoint detection and response (EDR); extended detection and response (XDR); and SOC metrics. Her research focuses on the current state and evolution of analytics, detection, automation, and response in security.
Build and execute the strategic vision of OCSO. Represent the organization as an SME and as an internal agent of change. Influence product decisions and represent the CSO in absentia.
Owned and operated a successful technical consultancy. Advised organizations on core engineering challenges related to thermodynamics, computer engineering, and others. Designed, developed, and marketed mobile applications that reached the top ten charts in multiple countries. Created written and video content as well as web and mobile applications for small to medium size businesses.
Developed mobile applications for global brands as a member of the management team and built relationships directly with prospects and customers to address their needs.