Merium Khalid

Background

About Merium Khalid

Merium Khalid is the Director of Offensive Security at Barracuda, where she and her team are responsible for handling all offensive operations. This includes building best-in-class use case detections through machine learning and Artificial intelligence; conducting static queries to detect anomalous or suspicious behavior; researching and implementing new platforms; workflow automation; and providing best-in-class experience for Barracuda partners and their customers. To her role at Barracuda, Merium brings extensive experience in analyzing data, identifying threats, incident response, research and development, platform migrations and more. She is also a skilled researcher and has authored many whitepapers. She is also a mentor to many individuals on her team and is focused on her team's and partners success. During her career, Merium has spoken at cybersecurity conferences such as elasticON, RSA, and AWS Conference and presented many webinars show casing the latest cybersecurity threats. Merium earned her degree in computer science from SUNY Old Westbury and has many years of experience leading and handling security operations.