Rodrigo Montoro
CTO at Clavis Segurança da Informação
Santa Catarina, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRodrigo Montoro is a seasoned cybersecurity leader and CTO with over two decades deploying and hardening open-source security systems, from IDS/IPS and HIDS to log management and firewall ecosystems. He blends hands-on detection engineering—authoring Snort/ModSecurity rules and coordinating Brazil-focused malware signatures—with executive research leadership at Clavis and senior roles across Tempest, Tenchi, and Trustwave SpiderLabs. Holder of two patents for malicious document and HTTP-traffic detection, he is a prolific conference speaker and longtime Snort-BR evangelist who translates threat research into operational detection content. Based in Santa Catarina, Brazil, Rodrigo also co-founded defensive training initiatives and a security stack startup, showing a rare mix of product, teaching, and R&D instincts that drive practical, community-informed threat defenses.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bandeirantes Americana
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (59)
rootkit9
ossec9
aqua9
compliance8
hardening8
saas8
endpoint-security8
security8
integrity8
nist7
gcp7
aws7
pci7
gdpr7
intrusion-detection7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spookerlabs/kibana_attack
Jul 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
spookerlabs/defcon31
Aug 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:1 push in 4 months
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