Nathaniel Quist is a Principal Researcher working with Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 and Prisma Cloud teams on researching the threats facing public cloud platforms, tools, and services. He is actively focused on identifying the threats, malware and threat actor groups that target cloud environments. Nathaniel has worked within Government, Public, and Private sectors and holds a Master of Science in Information Security Engineering (MSISE) from The SANS Institute, where he focused on Network and System Forensics, Malware Reversal, and Incident Response. He is the author of multiple blogs, reports, and whitepapers published by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 and Prisma Cloud as well as the SANS InfoSec Reading Room.