Ashley Shen

Jumping hurdles to verify vulnerabilities on Chinese Instant Messaging

Chi-en Shen (Ashley) is security researcher at Cisco Talos. She specializes in researching emerging threats, including nation-state targeted attacks, financially motivated crimes, spyware, and exploitation carried out by mercenary groups. Previously, she worked as a security engineer at Google Threat Analysis Group, where she focused on zero-day exploit hunting and tracking botnets. Prior to that, she was a member of the Mandiant Global Research Team, where she tracked APT groups in APAC and contributed to the development of the Threat Intelligence platform. Passionate about supporting women in InfoSec, Ashley co-founded HITCON GIRLS, the first security community for women in Taiwan. Additionally, she serves as an organizer for Rhacklette, a security community for FINTA in Switzerland. To support the security community, Ashley serves as a review board member for Black Hat Asia, Hacks in the Box and HITCON conferences. She has also shared her expertise as a speaker at conferences such as Black Hat, Hack in the Box, HITCON, FIRST, CODE BLUE, Troopers, Confidence, RESET, and others. In her free time, she enjoys playing CTF and traveling.