Matias is a McAfee Sr. Principal Engineer with 20 years working experience in Internet scale computing, information retrieval and their intersection with cyber security and large-scale device management. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Rutgers University in the area of large-scale distributed systems.
Matias has published 15+ papers on distributed computing and security with over 800 citations, including one of the best papers in IEEE/HPDC history (1992-2012); Matias has 4 US patents in distributed computing and web security.
More from Francisco Matias Cuenca-Acuna
When Less is More – MVISION EDR Leads Detection Efficiency & Alert Quality
If you are an incident responder, a SOC analyst or a threat hunter, you know how a well-designed EDR solution can augment your visibility, detection, and reaction capabilities. However, in many organizations, a single blue teamer, or how we like to call them, an “all around defender,” may wear all these hats. Even when all these roles are performed by the same person, ...
SOC vs MITRE APT29 evaluation – Racing with Cozy Bear
MITRE just released the results of the APT 29 evaluation of 21 commercial cybersecurity products today, including McAfee MVISION EDR. This evaluation, conducted in the form of a collaborative attack and defense exercise, is based on ATT&CK®, a freely available and open source knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques ...
A Model for Human and Machine Interaction: Human-Machine Teaming Grows up
Security operation centers (SOCs) are struggling to keep up with attackers, and artificial intelligence (AI) has failed to deliver significant improvements. The industry has been successful at applying AI to malware detection and user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) using deep neural networks and anomaly detection. But other core SOC ...
