Based in Ohio, Amanda Berlin is a highly accomplished network defender and public speaker. She is the lead incident detection engineer for Blumira, leading an R&D team dedicated to lowering time to detection and improving the overall security landscape. She has spent over a decade in different areas of technology and sectors providing infrastructure support, triage, and design. Amanda has been involved in implementing a secure Payment Card Industries (PCI) process and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance as well as building a comprehensive phishing and awards-based user education program. Amanda serves as the founder and CEO of Mental Health Hackers, a nonprofit dedicated to providing education and guidance to tech workers around mental health topics. Amanda is also cohost of the Brakeing Down Security podcast.
