Austin Whisnant

Austin Whisnant is a part-time faculty member at the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh and a technical staff member at the CERT Program within the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University. She specializes in cybersecurity, focusing on network traffic analytics and threat intelligence.

• Education: MS in Telecommunications (University of Pittsburgh), BS in Computer Science and Mathematics (Furman University)
• Expertise: Network security, large-scale traffic analysis, advanced persistent threat (APT) detection
• Experience: Training military/government personnel, integrating threat intelligence with network data

Her research involves developing cutting-edge network security tools and methodologies for detecting malicious activity through traffic analysis. She has presented her work at the SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit.

Scientific Awards

• National Science Foundation Scholarship for Service