Nathaniel Quist

Nathaniel "Q" Quist works with Palo Alto Network’ Prisma Cloud and Unit 42 as a Senior Threat Researcher focused on researching the threats facing public cloud platforms, tools, and services. He has worked within government, public, and private sectors. He holds a master of science in information security engineering (MSISE) from the SANS Institute, where he focused on network and system forensics, malware reversal, and incident response. He is the author of multiple blogs, reports, and whitepapers published by Unit 42 as well as the SANS InfoSec Reading Room. Quist is actively focused on identifying the threats facing cloud environments, specifically the malware targeting those environments and the actor groups behind those attacks.