Allison Wikoff is the Americas Director for the global Threat Intelligence function at PwC. She has 20 years of experience working as a network defender, incident responder, intelligence analyst, and researcher. The focus of the latter half of Allison's career to date has been researching nation-state cyber activity with a focus on Iran. Though she speaks publicly about Iranian operations, she has a passion for tracking all types of cyber threats, both nation state and criminal. Her research interests include emerging threats and threat actor mistakes. She holds numerous industry certifications and an advanced degree from Columbia University where she guest lectures for several information security-focused graduate courses.