Justin Borland
Director of Threat Engineering, Abstract Security
A proven technical leader in the security industry, Justin started his career with a Canadian Secret clearance while still in College. After graduating, he spent the next decade building custom packet capture systems, intrusion detection systems, logging systems, and DFIR tooling for large organizations.
Justin established and ran the Countermeasures team at Equifax. The team was responsible for building and maintaining the fleet of Moloch PCAP/IDS, IPS, and hundreds of other systems using petabytes of data. His team was also responsible for discovering the 2017 data breach. Justin was called into the Senate, while on paternity leave, in 2018.
At Barclays, Justin was part of the Global Hunt team and helped develop and mature many Threat Hunting capabilities and processes, especially related to malware analysis and DFIR.
Justin lead both the Threat Detection & Response and IT Ops functions at Unqork.
Currently, Justin is the Director of Threat Engineering at Abstract, and works with the Abstract Security Threat Research Organization (ASTRO) team to develop and implement threat detection content.
