April Lorenzen

April Lorenzen

Chief Data Scientist at Zetalytics
Joined on June 2, 2017
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April Lorenzen is an Internet security researcher specializing in the preemptive? discovery of miscreant and crimeware resources in the domain name?system. In her work as Chief Data Scientist at Zetalytics, she oversees one? of the world’s most geographically diverse passive DNS systems. She has operated IoC security feeds continuously since 2004, and is the primary architect of the free open source data? visualization tool “Mal4s”.

April volunteers extensively in the whitehat community,  as a ?Senior Technical Advisor for the Messaging, Malware, Mobile Anti-Abuse? Working Group (M3AAWG) and as a Senior Research Fellow for the ?Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). She received the “Global Impact”? award from DHS S&T Cyber Security Division in 2016, and currently serves as the ?Principal Investigator at Dissect Cyber for a critical infrastructure supply chain cyber?security notification research project. In 2006, April ?received an award for “Outstanding Support in the Ongoing Battle Against ?Cyber Crime” from the National Cyber Forensics Training Alliance? (NCFTA). She is a frequent trainer and speaker at international ISP, law? enforcement and security industry conferences.?

Information about her research project can be found at CyberNotify.org and on DHS.gov here.

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CybersecurityCyberattackCybercrimeNetworksThreat IntelligenceDNSDNS SecurityDomain Names

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