Director of Intelligence Operations

Katie Nickels

Katie has worked in Security Operations Centers and cyber threat intelligence for nearly a decade, hailing from a liberal arts background with degrees from Smith College and Georgetown University. Prior to joining Red Canary, Katie was the ATT&CK Threat Intelligence Lead at The MITRE Corporation, where she focused on applying cyber threat intelligence to ATT&CK and sharing why that’s useful. She is also a SANS instructor and has shared her CTI and ATT&CK expertise with presentations at many conferences as well as through Twitter, blog posts, and podcasts.

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