Omar Santos

Omar Santos is an active member of the security community, where he leads several industry-wide initiatives. His active role helps businesses, academic institutions, law enforcement agencies, and other participants that are dedicated to increasing the security of the critical infrastructure. Omar is the author of over 20 books and video courses; numerous white papers, articles, and security configuration guidelines and best practices. Omar is a Principal Engineer of Cisco’s Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) where he mentors and lead engineers and incident managers during the investigation and resolution of security vulnerabilities. Omar is the co-lead of the DEF CON Red Team Village, the chair of the Common Security Advisaory Framework (CSAF) Standard Technical Committee, and the co-chair of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) Open Source Security working group. Omar has been quoted by numerous media outlets, such as TheRegister, Wired, ZDNet, ThreatPost, CyberScoop, TechCrunch, Fortune Magazine, Ars Technica, and more.