Niranjan JayanandNiranjan Jayanand has over 11 years of experience in anti-malware and security companies including Symantec and McAfee and has recently joined Microsoft. Niranjan is an experienced principal threat intelligence analyst with sound knowledge of threat group tracking, reverse engineering, Yara , generic antivirus signature creation and threat report writing for customers. He has authored over 60 proactive APT reports on attacks hitting the MENA region and South Asian countries. He has good experience working on PRC origin attacks and Iranian groups. Among the attacks investigated , most of them were identified when the attack was on going and customers were alerted at the earliest. In the past Niranjan has worked on multiple customer escalations on outbreaks that have infected many machines, and helped them remediate infections. In his free time, Niranjan loves travel, spending time with his family and pets. He is very active with a number of charity groups in South India and finding out ways on how he can help others.