Marion Marschalek is an independent security consultant and trainer with her consulting company Hack & Cheese. Prior to that she held senior positions at AWS and Intel, and different roles in the threat detection industry, as a malware reverse engineer and incident responder. Marschalek is a frequent speaker at major security conferences, including Black Hat, Defcon, HITB, RSA, and SyScan, among others. She used to teach reverse engineering classes at University of Applied Sciences St. Poelten, from where she graduated in 2011 with a Master’s Degree in Information Security. In 2015 she started a hacker bootcamp for women titled BlackHoodie, which over the years established itself as a global initiative to attract more diverse talent to the security industry. In her spare time she enjoys long distance running.