John Bambenek

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area United States

Threat Intelligence Manager, Malware Researcher, Public Speaker and Lifelong Educator

John Bambenek is Manager of Threat Intelligence Systems at Fidelis Cybersecurity and an incident handler with the Internet Storm Center. He is also a faculty member of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois where he teaches courses in cybersecurity. He has been researching security threats and criminal organizations for 17 years and coordinating with US and foreign law enforcement entities to help bring criminal actors to justice. He is a published author of several articles, book chapters and one book. He has contributed to IT security courses and certification exams covering such subjects as penetration testing, reverse engineering malware, forensics, and n...