Mike Benjamin Mike Benjamin, Principal Security Architect, is a member of the Threat Research Team at Level 3 Communications where he focuses on enumeration and cleanup of malicious infrastructure. His current focus is on botnets, ransomware and exploit kits - working to create forensic and data-led methods for detection of the infrastructure that operates these points of malice. In the past 17 years Mike has held a variety of positions at Level 3 and Global Crossing, including security, systems, software development, and network technical leadership. His tenure as one of the lead network architects at Global Crossing provided him multiple years of focus on BGP that he has continued research during his current focus on security. @mikebdotorg