Anabella Cristaldi is a seasoned Fraud & Security Engineer and Elastic Certified Engineer with two decades of information security experience and eight years focused in fraud and security roles. She has designed and implemented network security infrastructure, compliance programs (SOX, PCI, ISO 27001), and specialized controls like PAM, SIEM, WAF and database hardening across telco and enterprise environments. At Andorra Telecom she combines hands-on Elastic Stack work with operational fraud detection, and has contributed security-focused enhancements to the popular elastic/beats project improving Windows event log coverage for authentication and audit events. Comfortable working across multidisciplinary teams, she translates security requirements into clear processes, policies and technical solutions that meet audit standards. Her background spans provider and client-side security roles, giving her practical insight into aligning vendor deliveries with internal compliance needs. Based in Andorra, she brings a pragmatic, auditor-aware approach to building observable, resilient security systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Instituto Politecnico Superior "General San Martin" (Universidad Nacional de Rosario)
Lic. en Informatica, Lic. en Informatica at Universidad Nacional de La Plata
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Contributions:3 reviews, 11 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Anabella primarily contributed to the security module within the Beats project, focusing on Windows event log processing. They added support for new event types related to user and group management, Kerberos authentication, and audit policy changes. Their work involved modifying existing code to incorporate new event IDs and functionality, enhancing the module's ability to monitor and analyze security-related events.
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash
Contributions:11 pushes, 3 branches in 3 days
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