Evan Saez is a Network Security Analyst at LIFARS LLC, an international cybersecurity and digital forensics firm. His research and expertise are mainly focused on data mining, network analytics, threat detection, network intrusion, digital forensics, data breach response, and corporate network management. Evan worked on developing an in-house SIEM system called the Threat Intelligence and Monitoring System. Evan has also been involved in the development of the popular Jawfish pen-testing tool.

The Cold War as we knew it is long over, but tension remains between the United States and Russia. Some experts even go as far as to say that we are entering a new cyber Cold War. Their reasoning is that an increasingly high number of attacks on the United States originate from Russia. While many of these are carried out by highly organized criminal gangs, the most advanced and damaging (though not necessarily financially) attacks are state-sponsored.

The security space is white-hot in the news, due in large part to the steady surge of data breaches, confirmed (and unconfirmed) state-sponsored attacks and general curiosity about the future of hacking (see this week’s Jeep hacking experiment from Wired). This wave of interest in turn has created ample opportunities for B2B security companies to participate in relevant and timely discussions taking place in the news and to position themselves as experts in the field.