Natalia Lopez
Responsable CSIRT at Telefónica España
Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolNatalia Lopez is a cybersecurity leader based in the Greater Madrid area, currently heading the CSIRT at Telefónica España with a decade of focused experience and a 15-year international career background in security and engineering. She has progressed through technical and leadership roles—from ethical hacking and forensic computing to detection engineering and incident response—bringing hands-on expertise from IBM and EY to large-scale telco operations. Natalia holds advanced degrees in digital forensics and computer engineering (University College Dublin and Universidad Complutense de Madrid), which underpin her blend of investigative rigor and systems-level thinking. Known for building detection capabilities and steering cross-functional teams, she excels at turning complex threat intelligence into operational controls and resilient response playbooks. Fluent in multiple technical and linguistic contexts, she pairs pragmatic execution with a researcher’s curiosity, reflected in early ethical-hacking work at IBM Ireland Lab.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Computer Science, Erasmus Computer Science at Technological University DublinM.Eng Computer Engineering., M.Eng Computer Engineering. at Universidad Complutense de MadridRussian, Russian at Sandford Language InstituteMaster’s Degree Digital Investigation and Forensic Computing, Master’s Degree Digital Investigation and Forensic Computing at University College DublinRussian - Lower Intermediate, Russian - Lower Intermediate at Trinity College Dublin
Spanish, English, French, Russian
Github Skills (4)
security10
mobile-application10
penetration-testing10
application-security10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
natalilopez/SecurityShepherd
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:15 pushes in 1 month
application-securitymobile-applicationsecuritytrainingsecurity-training
OWASP/SecurityShepherd
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
Web and mobile application security training platform
Contributions:26 commits, 15 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 months
application-securitymobile-applicationsecuritypenetration-testingtraining
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