Katie Nickels

Katie is the Director of Intelligence at Red Canary and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. She has worked on cyber threat intelligence (CTI), network defense, and incident response for nearly a decade for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), MITRE, Raytheon, and ManTech. She also serves as an instructor for the SANS FOR578: Cyber Threat Intelligence course, enabling her to share her passion for CTI more broadly. Katie hosts SANS Threat Analysis Rundown (STAR), a popular monthly webcast series that discusses the current threat landscape and cyber threats. She is also the Program Manager at Cyberjutsu Girls Academy (CGA), a program for teenage girls that seeks to inspire exploration and learning in cybersecurity and STEM.