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Krassimir Tzvetanov

Graduate Research Assistant

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For the past four years Krassimir Tzvetanov has been a graduate student at Purdue University focusing his research on Homeland Security, Threat Intelligence, Operational Security Research, and Social Media Influence Operations, in the cyber domain.

Before that Krassimir was a security architect at Fastly, a content delivery network (CDN) designed to accelerate content delivery as well as serve as a WAF and a shield against DDoS attacks. His current focus is on incident response and investigations, threat intelligence and security systems architecture.

In the past he worked for hardware vendors like Cisco and A10 focusing on threat research and information exchange, DDoS mitigation features, product security and security software development best practices. Before joining Cisco, Krassimir was Dedicated Paranoid (security) at Yahoo!, Inc. where he focused on designing and securing the edge infrastructure of the production network. Part of his duties included dealing with DDoS and abuse. Before Yahoo! Krassimir worked at Google, Inc. as an SRE for two mission critical systems, the ads database supporting all incoming revenue from ads and the global authentication system which served all of the company applications.

Krassimir is very active in the security research and investigation community, has a number of contributions to FIRST SIGs, as well as participates in the Honeynet Project.In addition, Krassimir ran the BayThreat security conference and has contributed to a number of other events like DefCon, where he ran the Radio Communications group, and ShmooCon and DC650.

Krassimir holds bachelor's in electrical engineering (Communications), master's in digital Forensics and Investigations, and master's in information technology with focus on Homeland Security.