Rui Ataide

Rui Ataide, Managing Security Consultant, began his career in the security industry in 1996. In this capacity, Rui is responsible for delivering holistic incident response services using state of the art host and network-based tools. Using these tools, combined with advanced methodologies, Rui can assist clients obtain situational awareness and rapidly identify threats as part of tactical response to intrusions involving sophisticated adversaries that target intellectual property and other critically sensitive data.

Prior to GuidePoint Security, Rui had worked in several security consulting roles as a lead consultant for RSA/NetWitness, Imperva, Splunk, ArcSight and Symantec, all leaders in their field at the time. Rui has been working in Information Security for the past 25+ years, providing advice and expertise to Fortune 100 companies including some of the world's largest retail, oil and financial companies. In some cases, Rui has been working with the same customer for several consecutive years and across multiple projects. Rui started his career as a System Administrator and Network Security Engineer at a privately owned University in Portugal.

Rui presented at several industry conferences or seminars over the years, including Blackhat and contributed to IETF drafts and was/is involved in open-source projects and credited for 2 CVEs.

Rui attended Minho University where he obtained a degree (MEng) in Engineering and Computer Science. Rui is also a certified trainer in several of the products that he worked with in the past.