Research Focus
Michela Menting, Research Director at ABI Research, delivers analyses and forecasts focusing on digital security. Through this service, she studies the latest solutions in cybersecurity technologies, critical infrastructure protection, risk management and strategies, and opportunities for growth. She then delivers end-to-end security research, from the silicon to cyber-based applications, closely analyzing technology trends and industry-specific implementations.
Past Experience
Before joining ABI Research, Michela worked as a telcos and IT analyst for visiongain, where she researched topics such as cloud computing, LTE devices, 3G/4G networks, mobile messaging, mobile applications, mobile security, MEMS, MVNOs, and FTTX, among others. Her experience includes working as a cybersecurity policy analyst for the United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union in Geneva, Switzerland.
Education
Michela obtained both an LLB in English and French Law and an LLM in Information Technology, Media and E-commerce from the University of Essex. While doing her LLB, she spent an academic year at the University of Paris X (Nanterre), where she obtained a Licence de Droit.
Blogs by Michela Menting
- Petya Learns its WannaCry Lesson
- Getting Ahead of Phishing
- RSAC 2017 Roundup: Smart & IoT Security Dominate
- Securing IoT Devices: Regulate Now or Die Trying
- Investment Promise for ICS Security Startups
- Brexit v. EU: A Cybersecurity Perspective
- EU NIS Directive Finally On Its Way
- Splunk Becomes a Serious Cybersecurity Contender
- RSAC15 Roundup
- Security Roundup @ MWC15
- Cartes Secure Connexions Roundup 2014
- Black Hat Europe 2014
- Industry Collaboration Presages New Cybersecurity Market Direction
- Votiro Tackles Zero-Days While Still Unknown
- Intelligence for Everyone! A Roundup of Infosecurity Europe 2014
- Routing for Malware
- Israel’s Hot Cybersecurity Start-up Scene
- Cybercrime and Security in the New Year
- Skydog - Parental Control Solution
- Raising Cybersecurity Awareness for the Youth in Algeria
- Thales Opens New Cybersecurity Battle Lab
- Project 2020 – A Future Vision of Cybercrime and Security
- AFORE Solutions Launches New Cloud Security Platform CypherX
- Child Online Protection - Not so easy after all
- Honeywell Expands Cyber Security for Plant Control
- Industrial Defender: An Innovative Player in a Niche Market
- Time to Index Cybersecurity Capacities
- Cloud points towards a single consumer security product
- Infosecurity Europe 2013
- The Tallinn Manual on International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare
- The European Smart Grid Cyber and SCADA Security Conference
- Symantec Inks Deal with Giesecke & Devrient for Partnership on Protected Mobile Security Applications
- Vodafone Partners with Defense Contractor BAE Systems on Mobile Security
- Is your enterprise ready to block IPv6 threats?
- Demystifying the ITU's Role in Internet Governance
- All I Want for Christmas is a Sentient Android
- A Closer Look at the Security Proposal for the International Telecommunication Regulations
- Physical Security Still Matters
- Of cyber jihad and other terrors
- SoftBank May Have More Success Than NTT DoCoMo...
- Stepping up security efforts in mobile health and medical devices
- Cybercrime's New Playground: Mobile
Michela Menting in the News
- US Chamber of Commerce calls for international IoT security standards
- Transportation Sector Not Taking Cyber Threat Seriously Enough
- Ransomware Attack Raises Concerns Over Future Assaults
- Shut Down Endpoint Threats
- Hardly Anyone Paying the Hackers? Because Using Bitcoin is Hard
- Your Password Is Terrible and Everyone Wants to Fix That
- The Two Faces of IoT Security
- Insider Attacks & How To Combat Them
- How to Respond to Device and Software Backdoors Inserted or Left by Vendors
- The Changing Face of Ransomware
- Methbot's Millions
- Assessing the Cost of Brexit from a Cybersecurity Standpoint
- Insider Attacks & How to Combat Them
- Blockchain and the IoT
- DDoS Attack Mitigation
- Avoidable Security Mistakes
- You Are Indeed A Target
- What's Next in Enterprise Tech
- Don't Fall Victim to Ransomware
- NSA's Website Goes Down Amid Hacking Fears
- Security Policy Orchestration Market Poised For Growth
- Brexit Will Make the UK More Vulnerable to Cybercrime
- Brexit: A Cybersecurity Perspective | ABI Research
- Analyst: Brexit Cybersecurity Ramifications Could be Significant
- 5 Ways to Defuse Data Threat from Departing Employees
- Security Concerns for Smart Cities
- Car-Hacked!
- Business Technology News
- Should You Worry About Your Car Being Hacked?
- Protecting Devices from Data Breach: Identity of Things (IDoT)
- DOJ Files Motion to Compel Apple to Comply in San Bernardino Investigation
- Could One iPhone Backdoor Really Expose Apple Inc.'s iOS Owners to Greater Security Risk?
- What is Cyberwarfare?
- Remote Hacks are the Main Threat to Connected Cars
- OpenSSH Exploit Plugged, but Damage May Already Be Done
- Business Security Impact Of IoT
- The Path Of Identity Theft
- Isolate Malware
- Rootkit Attacks
- 87% of UK Healthcare Organisations are Putting Patient Data at Risk
- Co-Managed Security
- Healthcare cybersecurity a 'massive' concern
- U.S. most committed to cybersecurity
- U.S. ranked most committed to cybersecurity
- ABI Research, Centrica, National Grid, ENi, Petrofac, and Tullow Oil to present at Oil and Gas Cyber Security-2014
- Security 'not the norm' for IoT devices, warns ABI
- NSA faces more cyber-snooping allegations in Germany
- Researchers hack Gmail app with 92% success rate
- Could sub-Saharan Africa be next cybersecurity hotspot?
- Fortinet, Barracuda Networks, Intel top security list
