Ivan MacalintalIvan Macalintal has spent more than 16 years in the anti-malware and security industry and progressed from an-timalware engineer, analyst and researcher roles to founding and leading operations and threat research teams as well multiple high-impact projects, processes and services for global industry partners and customers, in Trend Micro for more than a decade, and now in Microsoft for more than four years.Ivan is passionate about: 1) Threat analysis and research, connecting the dots and spotting the needles in the haystack of threat intelligence from advanced persistent threats, targeted attacks, cybercrime campaigns and other threats targeting data confidentiality, integrity and availability; 2) Reverse-engineering, static and dynamic code analysis, Internet forensics, open source intelligence; 3) Industry, partner and customer engagements; 4) Global and regional cross-functional and cross-cultural project and people management for anti-malware, cyber-threat solutions research, planning, and deployment; 5) Correlation and consolidation of big data to protect customers and to further research new emerging threats. Ivan has published numerous impactful and newsworthy blog articles and presented at various industry conferences: Virus Bulletin, Association of Antivirus Asia Researchers (AVAR), the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA), B-Sides, Digital Crimes Consortium (DCC), Microsoft TechEd North America and the Microsoft Security Response Alliance (MSRA) summit, and has been a well-travelled SME, consultant and resource for management and executive teams for customer and threat-marketing related projects and goals.During his free time, he leads efforts in diversity and inclusion and is involved in projects for non-profit community building. He is also starting to write mystery novels, forever searching for the perfect cup of coffee and enjoys simply spending time with family and friends to 'make a life, not just a living'.