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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Adversaries compromise email accounts at educational institutions in back-to-school campaign

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Threat intelligence

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4 hiring tips for building a cyber threat intelligence team

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Threat intelligence

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Threat intelligence

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Microsoft Exchange server exploitation: how to detect, mitigate, and stay calm

March 9, 2021

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Remapping Red Canary with ATT&CK sub-techniques

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Atomic Red Team

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Getting started in cyber threat intelligence: 4 pieces of advice

September 15, 2020

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Getting started in cyber threat intelligence: 4 pieces of advice

Hello world: on finding my voice

June 16, 2020

Opinions & insights

Hello world: on finding my voice

Endpoint security: what’s changed and what hasn’t?

May 19, 2020

Opinions & insights

Endpoint security: what’s changed and what hasn’t?