Veronica is a hacker and researcher from Argentina. Her research has a strong focus on helping people and involves different areas, from wireless and bluetooth privacy issues to malware, botnets and intrusion analysis.
She has presented her research on international conferences such as BlackHat, EkoParty, Botconf, Troopers, and others. Since 2017, she has been participating as committee reviewer of several conferences, including BlackHat EU, GreHack, and BSides Zürich.
She is the co-founder of the MatesLab hackerspace (@mateslab) based in Argentina. She is also the co-founder of the Independent Fund for Women in Tech (@womenintechfund), which aims to change the participation ratio of women at security conferences by providing free tickets to attend those events. She is also part of the core team of Security Without Borders (@swborders), a collective of cyber security professionals who volunteer assisting people at risk and NGOs on cyber security issues.
From 2013 to early 2018 she worked in the Cognitive Threat Analytics team (Cisco Systems) where she specialised on malware network traffic analysis and threats’ categorisation at big scale. She led a threat research team, leading simultaneous research projects and mentoring young people.
Since April 2018, she joined the Czech Technical University in Prague. She is leading the Civilsphere project, which aims to help NGOs from targeted attacks and cyber threats that may threaten their activities. In her spare time she is studying and researching remote access trojans in a project called 'A Study of RATs'.
Together with Avast company, we aim to protect IoT devices by analyzing, executing, and detecting attacks and malware. The project leverages real IoT devices that are infected and attacked constantly, including routers, Raspberry Pi's, Alexa and other devices.
The goal of Civilsphere project is to provide simple solutions for NGOs and people at risk for detecting attacks in their devices using our network behavioral Intrusion Detection and Prevention System, Stratosphere IPS.
The first free software to use machine learning to detect attacks in the network.
Our research laboratory focusing on AI and cybersecurity has been accepted into this year's global open-source programming initiative. If you're eager to enhance your coding prowess and tackle real-world challenges, consider applying!
Outstanding work deserves credit. We want to highlight the extraordinary work of our teachers and put their effort in the spotlight. Each semester, the AI Center will announce the "Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award" which comes with a prize money of 15 000 CZK. The winner will be awarded in April 2024.
After numerous awards and a hackathon win, our Ph.D. student Šimon Mandlík adds another trophy to his collection! This time, it is the prestigious prize of Josef Hlávka.
