Overview

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Candid Wüest works for Symantec's global security response team, where he has been going far beyond anti-virus signatures during the last twelve years. He analyses new security threats, formulates mitigation strategies and creates research reports on new emerging security trends – for example, threats to the Internet of Things. For three years, he worked as a Virus Analyst in the anti-malware laboratory of Symantec in Dublin, Ireland.

Wüest has published various whitepapers and has been featured as a security expert in top-tier media outlets including Forbes, BBC and many others. He is also a frequent speaker at security-related conferences including RSA, BlackHat and Area41. He learned coding and the English language on a Commodore 64. He holds a master of computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and various certifications.