Rodrigo Montoro

Security Researcher

Rodrigo “Sp0oKeR’’ Montoro has more than 20 years of experience in Information Technology and Computer Security. Most of his career worked with open source security software (firewalls, IDS, IPS, HIDS, log management, endpoint monitoring), incident detection & response, and Cloud Security. Currently, he is Head of Threat & Detection Research at Clavis Security. Before that, he worked as Cloud Researcher at Tenchi Security, Head of Research and Development at Apura Cyber Intelligence, SOC/Researcher at Tempest Security, Senior Security Administrator at Sucuri, Researcher at Spiderlabs. Author of 2 patented technologies involving innovation in the detection field. One is related to discovering malicious digital documents. The second one is in how to analyze malicious HTTP traffic. Rodrigo has spoken at several open source and security conferences (Defcon Cloud Village, OWASP AppSec, SANS (DFIR, SIEM Summit & CloudSecNext), Toorcon (USA), H2HC (São Paulo and Mexico), SecTor (Canada), CNASI, SOURCE, ZonCon (Amazon Internal Conference), Blackhat Brazil, BSides (Las Vegas e SP)).