Mauro Silva
Head Of Cyber Security at Virgin Media O2
Lisbon Metropolitan Area Portugal
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Top SchoolMauro Silva is a seasoned cyber security leader with 11 years’ experience building and scaling incident response, threat hunting and SOC capabilities across national CERTs and major telco environments, currently serving as Head of Cyber Security at Virgin Media O2. He combines hands-on forensic and IR expertise with a relentless drive for automation, having built training environments, incident simulations and streamlined analyst workflows to eliminate inefficiency. Mauro contributed DevOps and backend work to the well-regarded IntelMQ project, enhancing installation/update scripts, cache and logging controls—demonstrating practical open-source impact on threat intel pipelines. He has represented organisations at conferences, led a nationwide cyber exercise, and uniquely blends technical depth (SANS-trained in advanced forensics) with strategic influence over corporate security posture.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Forensics Forensic Investigation, Computer Forensics Forensic Investigation at Academia Militar e CERT.PTTRANSITS II CSIRT training Forensics and Netflow analysis, TRANSITS II CSIRT training Forensics and Netflow analysis at TERENASANS FOR408: Computer Forensic Investigations - Windows In-Depth Forensic Investigation, SANS FOR408: Computer Forensic Investigations - Windows In-Depth Forensic Investigation at SANS InstituteAdvanced Cyber Security Framework Practitioner, Advanced Cyber Security Framework Practitioner at DeloitteMasters Degree in Information Systems and Computer Engineering Distributed Systems, Masters Degree in Information Systems and Computer Engineering Distributed Systems at Instituto Superior TécnicoRIPE Database Training Course, RIPE Database Training Course at RIPE NCC
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (14)
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configuration-management10
automation10
script10
automations10
shell10
devops10
python10
scripting10
cicd9
incident-response9
cybersecurity9
redis8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
certtools/intelmq
Jul 2014 - Feb 2016
IntelMQ is a solution for IT security teams for collecting and processing security feeds using a message queuing protocol.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:33 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Mauro primarily contributed to the IntelMQ project by implementing and maintaining the installation and update scripts, which demonstrates DevOps expertise. They also added features related to cache management and log parameter configurations. Furthermore, the user fixed bugs and implemented an accuracy parameter for all feeds, suggesting contributions to both backend functionality and system configuration. This work indicates a strong understanding of the project's infrastructure and core components.
ihappythonphishingcertmalware
mauroasilva/intelmq-1
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
feedsmessage-queuetwitter-apitwitterprocess-data
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