Ryan Victory

Ryan Victory is a Senior Information Security Engineer at Comerica Bank specializing in "Hunting" - using big data technology to find threats that traditional security controls fail to detect (the "unknown unknowns"). Ryan applies deep knowledge of Information Security principles along with networking expertise and programming skills to create models and tools that analyze large amounts of security log data to identify threats. Ryan loves exploring new technologies, especially in the data field, and currently uses Spark and Hive on MapR to analyze security data, exploiting Spark's parallel processing power and its machine learning to help identify security threats.