Dana Baril

Dana leads Security Research for Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection at Microsoft, researching and developing new cyber security threat detections. She started her career in an elite Israeli military cyber intelligence unit (‘8200’), proceeded to work at a Big Data startup, and then joined Google, in its Zurich HQ. For the past 5 years she has been working on Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection at Microsoft. Dana is passionate about Operating Systems and Windows Internals. She is also volunteering with high school students and undergrads, training and mentoring the next generation of cyber security experts.