ASERT Threat Intelligence Team

As area vice president of engineering for NETSCOUT’s threat and mitigation products, Hardik Modi leads teams responsible for all aspects of threat intelligence, including threat research and collections. Modi has two decades of experience in threat intelligence, network and security product design and research, and software engineering.

Richard Hummel has over 14 years of experience in the intelligence field and is currently the Senior Threat Intelligence Manager for NETSCOUT's ASERT Team. Previously, he served as Manager and Principal Analyst at FireEye and iSIGHT Partners.

Steinthor Bjarnason is a Principal Security Engineer on the NETSCOUT’s ASERT team, performing applied research on new technologies and solutions to defend against DDoS attacks with specific focus on automated DDoS detection and mitigation.

Roland Dobbins is a Principal Engineer on NETSCOUT’s ASERT Team. He has more than three decades of operational and architectural experience in the service provider (SP) and large enterprise arenas, designing, deploying, operating, securing, maintaining, troubleshooting and defending many of the largest, highest-visibility networks in the world.

John is a principal analyst at NETSCOUT on the ATLAS Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT). He is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago studying under the tutelage of Chris Kanich.

Roman Lara has more than 15 years of operational experience in the cloud hosting service provider realm, driving the design, build, and security of global network infrastructure.

Filippo Vitale is a principal threat intelligence researcher with over 10 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry. He holds a master’s degree in computer engineering, and he is highly skilled in gathering, analyzing, and interpreting information about cyber threats.

Christopher Conrad is a seasoned cyber security professional with an extensive background in security and performance testing on a myriad of cyber security products, including endpoint protection, firewalls, IPS devices, and DDoS protection.

Clark Arenberg is a security analyst at NETSCOUT on the ATLAS Security Engineering and Research Team. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, working on a Master’s degree in machine learning and computer security at Georgia Tech.

Kinjal is an entry level Security Analyst at NETSCOUT’s ASERT Research Team. She is a Master’s candidate in University of Maryland Baltimore County performing machine learning research under Jennifer Sleeman and Milton Halem.

Max is a Computer Science student at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. His study specializes on cyber security, his personal focus are network protocols, the Internet and how to measure it. He started at NETSCOUT as a research intern before he joined the team as a research analyst.

Marcin Nawrocki is a Senior Research Analyst who joined NETSCOUT's ASERT Team after earning his doctorate.