THE PRACTICE · TENURE & EXPERTISE
Six analysts. Forty seven years of intelligence.
Recruited from CISA, GCHQ, the CIA, NCSC, and a handful of newsrooms. Vetted, peer-reviewed, accountable.
Marwa Okonkwo
Director · Threat Intelligence
Twelve years tracking nation-state operations across the EMEA region. Prior posting at the UK National Cyber Security Centre. Author of the 2024 "Persistence Without Privilege" framework now adopted by three NATO member CERTs.
Prior Postings
- UK NCSC · Operations Lead
- Mandiant · Senior Researcher
Ezra Tannenbaum
Principal · Strategic Advisory
Former senior advisor to two Fortune 50 boards on cybersecurity governance. Eighteen years across federal civilian roles, including a tour at CISA. Specialty: translating technical findings into board-ready strategic counsel.
Prior Postings
- CISA · Senior Advisor
- Fortune 50 BoD · Cybersecurity Counsel
Haruka Pendleton
Lead · Adversary Profiling
Decade in counterintelligence at the CIA before joining the private sector. Built the adversary profiling methodology now used by the firm. Reads operational telemetry the way most people read newspapers.
Prior Postings
- CIA · Counterintelligence Center
- FireEye · Targeted Threats
Rafael Quintero
Director · Geopolitical Risk
Foreign-correspondent background, then a decade at the Council on Foreign Relations covering cyber-statecraft. Now leads SCRYER’s integration of geopolitical context into technical threat analysis.
Prior Postings
- Council on Foreign Relations · Senior Fellow
- Reuters · Foreign Desk
Aoife McDermott
Senior Analyst · Incident Forensics
Eight years on incident response teams at three Fortune 100 firms. Built and led the forensic methodology toolkit used internally. The analyst clients ask for when the breach is already in the news.
Prior Postings
- Mandiant · Principal IR
- Fortune 100 · IR Team Lead
Johan Eriksen
Senior Analyst · Source Operations
Former intelligence officer at the Norwegian Intelligence Service. Built and runs SCRYER’s human-source network across Northern and Eastern Europe. Quiet, methodical, and very rarely wrong.
Prior Postings
- Norwegian Intelligence Service · Operations
- NATO CCDCOE · Liaison
CAREERS · OPEN POSITIONS
We hire from the inside.
We hire former CISA, NCSC, and CIA cyber officers and senior research journalists. Permanent positions in Washington DC, London, and Singapore. Peer review is part of the contract.
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