Cyber security research and innovation

Nathan Einwechter leads the Security Research team at Vectra AI. He has two decades of cybersecurity experience focusing on advanced threat incident response, reverse engineering, and offensive security.

Dmitriy Beryoza is a senior security researcher with Vectra AI. He works on threat detection in the cloud and on-premises networks. Before Vectra AI, he was a penetration tester and secure software development advocate at IBM — and worked as a software developer for many years before switching to security full-time. Dmitriy has spoken at DEF CON, BSides Las Vegas, BSides SF, Hackfest, and other security conferences. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and OSCP, CISSP, CCSP and CEH certifications. His interests include reverse engineering, secure software development, and CTF competitions.

Joshua St.Hilaire is a director of security research at Vectra AI, where he currently leads research on adversarial detection models. He has twenty years of experience in computer security focused on incident response, threat hunting, and reverse-engineering. Before joining Vectra AI, Joshua began his career serving the United States Air Force and was responsible for keeping U.S. DoD information systems secure on a global scale.

Luke is the threat intel lead for Vectra AI. He has been with the company for seven years, joining as a consultant analyst and working with customers and high level incident response directly. Before joining Vectra AI, Luke was a senior security analyst for an international engineering and defense contractor where he developed SOC toolsets, processes, and incident response playbooks.

Kat Traxler is the principal security researcher at Vectra AI, focusing on abuse techniques and vulnerabilities in the public cloud. Before her current role, she worked at various stages in the SDLC, performing web application penetration testing and security architecture design for Web, IAM, Payment, and Cloud Native Technologies. Kat’s research philosophy directs her work to where design flaws and misconfigurations are most probable. This guiding principle leads her research to the intersection of technologies, particularly the convergence of cloud security and application security, and where the OS layer interfaces with higher-level abstractions.

Kat has presented at various conferences, including the SANS CloudSecNext Summit and fwd:CloudSec, on topics such as privilege escalation in GCP and bug-hunting in the cloud. In addition to her work at Vectra AI, she is a member of IANS Faculty and the Lead Author of the SANS SEC549 - Enterprise Cloud Security Architecture. She holds multiple GIAC certifications.

Sohrob Kazerounian is a distinguished AI researcher at Vectra AI, where he develops and applies novel machine learning architectures in the domain of cybersecurity. After realizing his goal of becoming a skilled hacker was not meant to be, he focused his studies on Artificial Intelligence, with a particular interest in neural networks. After receiving his Ph.D. in  Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Swiss AI Lab (IDSIA) working on Deep Learning, Recurrent Neural Networks, and Reinforcement Learning.

Matt Silver is the VP of Data Science at Vectra, overseeing development of AI models and systems that detect and prioritize attack behaviors in close partnership with Security Research. Matt has been at Vectra for over 10 years, building on his prior experience in research and modeling at MIT and his PhD work in computational neuroscience, neural networks, and machine learning.

Ben has been developing and implementing attack detection methods at Vectra AI for the last five years. Lately, he has focused using modeling and machine learning to protect AWS and Azure infrastructure.  He has a PhD in physics from Brown University, where he studied the behavior of liquids at tiny scales.

Oliver Tavakoli sets the technical strategy for Vectra AI. He has overseen the adoption of technology in cybersecurity for over 25 years, the last ten of which have been at Vectra AI. Prior to Vectra AI, Oliver was the CTO for the security business of Juniper Networks. He joined Juniper as a result of its acquisition of Funk Software, where he was the CTO. Earlier in his career, Oliver worked at IBM, Fluent Machines, and Novell INC and founded Trilogy Inc, which was acquired by Funk Software.