Cristine Hoepers is a Senior Security Analyst and General Manager at
CERT.br, the Brazilian National CERT, maintained by NIC.br, from the
Brazilian Internet Steering Committee. She has been working with
Incident Management at CERT.br since 1999, where she helps the
stablishment of new CSIRTs in the Country, provides training in
information security and incident handling, develops best practices for
system administration and user awareness materials, and is involved
with the organization of regular meetings with diverse sectors in
Brazil, to discuss Internet security and best practices, among other
matters. She has also been involved since 2001 with honeypots and
honeynets; since 2003 with the deployment of a network of distributed
honeypots in Brazil; and since 2006 with the SpamPots Project, a way to
measure the abuse of end-user machines to send spam.
Cristine is a CERT-Certified Computer Security Incident Handler and an
authorized instructor to deliver the CERT Program courses, from the
Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. She has a
degree in Computer Science and a PhD in Applied Computing from the
Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE). She has been a
speaker and moderator at several forums such as ITU, OAS, APWG, IGF,
London Action Plan, MAAWG, LACNIC, FIRST and AusCERT Conferences.