Blake Strom
Principal Security Research Manager at Tidal Cyber
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Strom is a Principal Security Research Manager at Microsoft with a strong track record leading threat research and data science teams to harden cloud and hybrid environments. He helped create and lead the influential MITRE ATT&CK project and previously served as a principal cyber security engineer at MITRE, bringing deep expertise in adversary emulation, red teaming, hunting, and automation. His background includes operational leadership at the NSA/DoD and hands-on incident correlation work, enabling a rare blend of strategic vision and tactical tradecraft. Based in Tampa, he also advises early-stage security firms like Tidal Cyber, translating enterprise research into product and practice. A UC Berkeley computer science alumnus, Blake is known for bridging rigorous research with practical defenses—often surfacing subtle attacker behaviors that improve large-scale protections.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (6)
cybersecurity10
security-testing10
mitre-attack10
security-automation10
emulation10
microsoft-365-defender7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
bstrom/Microsoft-365-Defender-Hunting-Queries
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Sample queries for Advanced hunting in Microsoft 365 Defender
Contributions:6 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 month
defenderkqlmicrosoft-365databasemicrosoft
apache/caldera
Nov 2017 - Apr 2019
Automated Adversary Emulation Platform
Contributions:7 commits, 7 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 5 months
emulationadversary-emulationcalderasecurity-automationred-team
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