• New adversaries named by CrowdStrike in 2024 and their techniques
• Social engineering innovations, including a dramatic spike in vishing
• How generative AI is helping adversaries level up
• A significant spike in intrusions by China-nexus groups
• A rise in insider threats by FAMOUS CHOLLIMA

Adam Meyers

SVP of Counter Adversary Operations, CrowdStrike

As CrowdStrike’s Senior Vice President of Counter Adversary Operations, Adam Meyers leads the Threat Intelligence line of business for the company. Meyers directs a geographically dispersed team of cyber threat experts tracking criminal, state-sponsored, and nationalist cyber adversary groups across the globe and producing actionable intelligence to protect customers. He oversees the development and deployment of AI, machine learning, reverse engineering, natural language processing, and other technologies to detect suspicious and malicious cyber behavior and stop increasingly sophisticated adversaries. Meyers’ work in combining human intelligence and intelligence derived from technology continues to transform cybersecurity.

Cristian Rodriguez

Chief Technology Officer of Americas, CrowdStrike

For over 18 years, Cristian Rodriguez has been a trusted advisor to cybersecurity leaders across a wide variety of industries, including financial services, academics, state and local governments, and varying federal agencies. Cristian has brought expertise and assistance to both the technical and business challenges that executives face when investing in new cyber technologies (e.g., endpoint detection and response, data loss prevention, and identity protection) or — more importantly — when implementing new policies around their investments. As part of the initial 130 employees, Cristian has been a mainstay at CrowdStrike for the past eight years, contributing to various white papers on mapping to compliance standards (such as NIST, PCI DSS, and HIPAA) and leading an initiative to assist with securing local government and healthcare facility systems with turnkey deployment models. Previous roles include field and consulting systems engineering titles at the likes of Optiv, Websense (Forcepoint), Zimperium, and CrowdStrike.