Benjamin S. Rivera Benjamin Rivera has more than 10 years of experience in information security. Currently, he manages both the threat research team and the training team under the Core Technology operations group at TrendLabs, the global technical support and R&D centre of Trend Micro. He oversees research projects and the engineers' training and development courses to further build expertise in the constantly changing threat and technology landscape. He has previously managed several teams that handle critical incident and threat response, advanced threat analysis, and heuristics. He has spoken at international conferences including the Association of Anti-Virus Asia Researchers (AVAR) and Nullcon Conference. A sports enthusiast at heart, Benjamin runs marathons and plays lawn tennis. He holds a degree in applied mathematics.