Hey there friends! I am Anthony "Sweater Vest Tony" Melfi and I am a cyber threat analyst. While in the Navy for 11 years, I was in a rating that was the jack of all trades. For the past seven years I have run, taught, and mentored large and small cyber threat analyst shops. I am also a former National Cryptologic School instructor for cyber threat analysis. I have seen my profession grow but, it seems there are vastly different opinions on what a analyst does. Which is right? Which is wrong? It honestly doesn't matter, we analysts are still the jack of all trades. What matters is that an analyst understands key, universal concepts and theories. More importantly is the ability to apply them to provide a 360 degree view of a given event, incident or activity. For interested parties, this presentation can be your road-map. For my fellow analysts, this is an opportunity to cross-pollinate some ideas that you may not be familiar with.

Finally, I would tell you a joke about UDP, but you might not get it....