Merium Khalid is Director of SOC Offensive Security at Barracuda. Merium has extensive experience in analyzing data, identifying threats, incident response, research and development, and a lot more. Her team is responsible for leading Incident Response triage calls, building best-in-class use case detections through machine learning, static queries, researching, and implementing new platforms, and automation of workflow in efforts to protect their customers, providing best-in-class experience along with ensuring the SOC analyst experience is top notch. Merium received her bachelor’s degree in computer science from SUNY Old Westbury and has many years of experience leading and handling security operations.