Veronica Valeros — Co-Founder
I'm a security researcher from Argentina. My research focuses on helping people and involves different areas, from wireless and Bluetooth privacy issues to malware, botnets, and intrusion analysis. I presented my research at international conferences such as BlackHat, EkoParty, Botconf, Troopers, and others. Since 2017, I've also participated as a committee reviewer of several conferences, including BlackHat EU, Ekoparty, NotPinkCon, and BSides Zürich. I'm the co-founder of the MatesLab hackerspace (@mateslab) based in Argentina. I also co-founded the Independent Fund for Women in Tech (@womenintechfund), which aims to change the women's participation ratio at security conferences by providing free tickets to attend those events. In February 2013, I finished a five-year career in Information Systems Engineering at FASTA University, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. I worked for two years on my final thesis in the area of web application security. The goal was to analyze web application's traffic to detect behavior anomalies. This research was part of a larger project by the Argentinean Institute of Scientific and Technical Research for Defense (CITEDEF). From 2013 to early 2018, I worked in the Cognitive Threat Analytics team (Cisco Systems), where I specialized in malware network traffic analysis and threat hunting at a large scale. I run a threat research team, leading simultaneous research projects, and mentoring young people. Since April 2018, I joined the Czech Technical University in Prague. I am leading the Civilsphere project to help NGOs from targeted attacks and cyber threats that may threaten their activities. In my spare time, I study remote access trojans in a project called 'A Study of RATs'. My job at Stratosphere requires me to do many things, from DevOps, data analysis, system administrator, teaching, project management, and many other things to make good stuff happen.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert with a focus on research and threat analysis.
Location: Prague, Czechia
Experience: 17 yrs 7 mos
Skills
- Technical Research
- Teaching
Career Highlights
- Presented research at major international conferences.
- Co-founded initiatives to empower women in tech.
- Led projects to protect NGOs from cyber threats.
Work Experience
Czech Technical University in Prague
Doctoral Student (7 mos)
Project Leader of the Stratosphere Research Laboratory (6 yrs 6 mos)
Project Lead of the Civilsphere Project (6 yrs 11 mos)
Stratosphere Laboratory AIC FEE CTU
Researcher (8 yrs)
Independent Fund For Women In Tech
Co-Founder (8 yrs 1 mo)
Cisco Systems
Software Engineer (4 yrs 11 mos)
InfoSec Institute
Researcher (1 yr)
FASTA University
'University to hacklab, respect and fun in Education' Poster presentation at WECE2010 (0 mo)
Undergraduate thesis (2 yrs 5 mos)
Study group on wireless security (1 yr 4 mos)
TalSoft S.R.L.
Freelance Penetration Tester (2 yrs 5 mos)
MatesLab
'Technology in Education, Education in Technology', Paper Presentation and Talk at TEYET2010 (0 mo)
39 JAIIO
Information Security Workshop (7 mos)
MatesLab Hackspace
Founder member (16 yrs 6 mos)
38 JAIIO
Information Security Workshop (6 mos)
FASTA University
Penetration Test to “ATE Computación” company (7 mos)
Escuela de Enseñanza Media CEM Nº 46
Mathematics Substitute Teacher (1 mo)
Education
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Czech Technical University in Prague
Master on Intelligence and Security Studies at Liverpool John Moores University
Information Systems Engineer (5 years) at FASTA University
High School at Francisco Pascasio Moreno High School
Primary School at Primary School No. 186 'El Turbio' nature reserve
Primary School at Primary School No. 41 at 'Las Golondrinas' nature reserve
