Vitor Ventura
Lead Security Researcher at Cisco Talos
Vitor Ventura is a Cisco Talos security researcher and manager of the EMEA and Asia Outreach team. As a researcher, he investigated and published various articles on emerging threats, and biometric authentication both in face recognition and fingerprinting. Most of the day Vitor is hunting for threats, reversing them but also looking for the geopolitical and/or economic context that better suits them. Vitor has spoken in conferences, like LabsCon, VirusBulletin, CARO, NorthSec, Recon, Recon Brussels, Defcon’s Recon Village and Crypto and Privacy Village, BSides Lisbon and Dublin among others. Prior to that he was IBM X-Force IRIS European manager where he was the lead responder on several high profile organizations affected by the WannaCry and NotPetya infections. Before that he did penetration testing at IBM X-Force Red, where Vitor led flagship projects like Connected Car assessments and ICS security assessments, custom mobile devices among other IoT security projects. Vitor holds a BSc in Computer Science and multiple security related certifications like GREM (GIAC Reverse Engineer Malware), CISM (Certified Information Security Manager).
