Dr. Amelia Estwick has joined VMware as the director of threat research, where she is responsible for leading VMware’s Threat Analysis Unit (TAU), a global multidisciplinary team focused on large-scale malware and telemetry analysis, malware reversal, threat hunting, and applied threat intelligence.. Dr. Estwick is a seasoned cybersecurity. professional with over 20 years of combined military and government IT experience within the U.S. intelligence community, including 10 years directly leading strategic and tactical cyber threat operations at the National Security Agency Threat Operations Center (NTOC). Prior to joining VMware, Dr. Estwick was the Director of the National Cybersecurity Institute at Excelsior College.. Dr. Estwick is a National Physical Sciences Consortium Fellow, a U.S. Army Gulf War Veteran and is frequently highlighted as an influential woman in cyber, most recently recognized as one of the Top 100 Women Know Cyber by Cybersecurity Ventures and 2021 Women Veteran Trailblazer by the Veteran Affairs Center for Women Veterans. Dr. Estwick is the vice president for the Women in Cybersecurity Mid-Atlantic Affiliate, a regional professional development organization established to promote, educate, recruit, retain and advance women in cybersecurity.
