About the Authors

Laurent Gil runs product strategy for internet security at Oracle Cloud. A cofounder of Zenedge Inc., Laurent joined Oracle Dyn Global Business Unit in early 2018 with Oracle’s acquisition of Zenedge. Prior to that, Laurent was CEO and cofounder of facial recognition software and machine learning company, Viewdle, which was acquired by Google in 2012.

Laurent holds degrees from the Cybernetic Institute of Ukraine (Doctorate Honoris Causa), the Wharton School of Business (MBA), Supélec (M.Sc., Computer Science and Signal processing), the Collège des Ingénieurs in Paris (post-graduate degree, Management), and is Summa Cum Laude of The University of Bordeaux (B.S. Mathematics).

Allan Liska is a solutions architect at Recorded Future. Allan has more than 15 years experience in information security and has worked as both a blue teamer and a red teamer for the intelligence community and the private sector. Allan has helped countless organizations improve their security posture using more effective and integrated intelligence. He is the author of The Practice of Network Security, Building an Intelligence-Led Security Program (Syngress) and NTP Security: A Quick-Start Guide (Apress), and the coauthor of DNS Security: Defending the Domain Name System (Syngress) and Ransomware: Defending Against Digital Extortion (O’Reilly).