Rodrigo Montoro

Security Researcher

Rodrigo “Sp0oKeR” Montoro has 20 years of experience deploying open-source security software (firewalls, IDS, IPS, HIDS, log management) and hardening systems. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at Tempest Security. His prior experience includes Cloud Researcher at Tenchi Security, Head of Research and Development at Apura Cyber Intelligence, SOC/Researcher at Clavis, Senior Security Administrator at Sucuri, and Spiderlabs Researcher, where he focused on IDS/IPS Signatures, Modsecurity rules, and new detection research. He is the author of 2 patented technologies involving the discovery of malicious digital documents and analyzing malicious HTTP traffic. He is currently coordinator and Snort evangelist for the Brazilian Snort Community. Rodrigo has spoken at several open-source and security conferences: OWASP AppSec, SANS DFIR & SIEM Summit, Toorcon (USA), H2HC (São Paulo and Mexico), SecTor (Canada), CNASI, SOURCE (Boston & Seattle), ZonCon (Amazon Internal Conference), BlackHat Brazil, and BSides (Las Vegas and São Paulo).