Matthew Olney is the Director of Threat Intelligence and Interdiction for Cisco Systems. He leads a group of security researchers and intelligence analysts charged with working with both public- and private-sector partners around the world to identify and address security threats.
His group also provides intelligence support to Cisco's commercial incident response offering, Cisco Talos Incident Response (CTIR), and manages Cisco's response to large-scale security events. He and his team took the lead in response to global events such as NotPetya, VPNFilter, Solar Winds and Log4J.
Over the course of the past 15 years working at Sourcefire and Cisco, his roles have included vulnerability development, detection logic creation, and application development and he has been awarded a patent for his work on cutting-edge security analysis engines.
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