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Carlos Perez

Director of Security Intelligence and Practice Lead, Incident Response

EXPERIENCE
Carlos Perez has been active in the security community since 1999 working for the Government of Puerto Rico helping secure networks and performing internal penetration tests. Carlos later joined Compaq/HP, where he worked as a Senior Solution Architect for the Security and Networking consulting practices covering 33 countries in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, helping customer design and implementing security solutions to assist customers in meeting their business needs. Carlos also worked as the Director of Reverse Engineering at Tenable, Inc., where he oversaw all remote code execution checks and identified zero-day vulnerabilities.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

  • MITRE ATT&CK Cyber Threat Intelligence
  • MITRE ATT&CK Cyber Security Operation Assessment
  • MITRE ATT&CK Cyber Adversary Emulation Methodology
  • MITRE ATT&CK Cyber Purple Teaming Methodology
  • CompTia Network +
  • CompTia A+
  • CompTia Linux +
  • CompTia Security +

INDUSTRY CONTRIBUTIONS
Carlos Perez has been active in the security community since 1999 working for the Government of Puerto Rico helping secure networks and performing internal penetration tests. Carlos later joined Compaq/HP, where he worked as a Senior Solution Architect for the Security and Networking consulting practices covering 33 countries in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, helping customer design and implementing security solutions to assist customers in meeting their business needs. Carlos also worked as the Director of Reverse Engineering at Tenable, Inc., where he oversaw all remote code execution checks and identified zero-day vulnerabilities.

Featured Blogs and Resources

Discover the blogs, analysis, webinars, and podcasts by this team member.

Blog December 12 2023

Tech Brief - Citrix Bleed Abused by Ransomware Crews

Welcome to our first brief on current events in the industry that TrustedSec believes our customers should know. Play Citrix Bleed Abused by Ransomware…

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Blog October 25 2022

LastPass Security Vulnerability: How Credentials are Accessed in Memory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hC15PzcQgc In this video, our Principal Research Analyst Scott Nusbaum goes over his research on LastPass Password Manager. He…

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Blog March 17 2023

Critical Outlook Vulnerability: In-Depth Technical Analysis and Recommendations (CVE-2023-23397)

Threat Overview Earlier this week, Microsoft released a patch for Outlook vulnerability CVE-2023-23397, which has been actively exploited for almost an entire…

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Blog May 12 2023

Learning Sysmon - Videos 1-10

Watch "Learning Sysmon," a new video series hosted by Research Team Lead Carlos Perez on YouTube now! What is Sysmon? Installation Command Line Configuration…

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Webinars July 12 2023

Cybersecurity Research Trends

Join Carlos Perez, our Research Lead, and Incident Commander Liz Waddell as they take a look at the biggest trends in the industry and pick apart what’s most…

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Blog February 02 2023

What this KeePass CVE means for organizations searching for new password vaults

https://youtu.be/OEaFaSjaZY4 After the 2022 LastPass breach, many organizations began searching for alternative password vault solutions. KeePass, a legacy…

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Blog February 01 2023

How Threat Actors Use OneNote to Deploy ASyncRAT

https://youtu.be/vWDwsbNWa1E See how Research Team Lead Carlos Perez dissects a sample of a OneNote document that was used to deploy ASyncRAT, an open-source…

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Webinars December 07 2022

Security Lessons Learned from the Global Conflict

Tune in with TrustedSec leaders who are on the front lines of the research, penetration testing, and Incident Response aspects of the conflict to learn how you…

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Blog September 21 2021

Supply Chain Woes – Attacks and Issues in IT Infrastructure: What Can We Do?

All businesses operate on the principle that a certain level of trust is necessary between the business itself and the IT components that comprise its…

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Webinars November 04 2020

Using Research to Gain Attack Intelligence

Come hear Carlos Perez, Practice Lead of the TrustedSec Research Unit and Chris Paschen, Senior Research Analyst, discuss how the industry has evolved, how to…

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