About Me
Welcome! I'm TropChaud (tʁo ʃo), a career intelligence researcher & analyst. I love creating tools, resources, and other content, especially when it involves large datasets & visualizations, and sharing it all in ways that make it easier to digest & retain.
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Bio
Scott Small is a security & intelligence practitioner and expert in cyber threat intelligence & threat profiling, open source research & investigations, and data analysis & automation. He currently serves as Director of Cyber Threat Intelligence at Tidal Cyber. Scott has advised enterprise and public sector security teams across maturity levels on technical and strategic applications of intelligence and on using technology to help identify and mitigate organizational risk. Throughout his career, Scott has briefed and trained large and small audiences and has presented original content at most major security conferences, including DEFCON, FIRSTCON, RSA Conference, MITRE ATT&CKcon, multiple BSides, and ISAC & other industry events.
Scott is an active member of the professional security and intelligence communities and a proponent of open-source information for upskilling and strengthening our collective security. In addition to contributing to community projects, he has published independent projects that aggregate and streamline publicly accessible security resources, as well as his own original tools & resources.
Key Skills & Expertise
Intelligence collection, analysis, automation, & operationalization, Open-Source intelligence (OSINT) research & investigations, Risk assessment, Threat/Risk quantification, Data analysis & visualization, Cyber & physical security best practices, Operational security, Insider threat, Security SaaS
Programming Languages
Python (Advanced), Javascript (Intermediate), HTML (Intermediate), Data visualization (D3 & SaaS), Spreadsheet data analysis
Foreign Languages
French (Advanced), Arabic (Intermediate)