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Nicole Hoffman is an experienced intelligence analyst with a passion for developing her fellow analysts. Her work, research, and presentations have inspired and educated others around the international analytic community.


For someone diagnosed with ADHD, intelligence analysis can be mentally taxing. An experienced speaker, Nicole developed frameworks to dive deeper into the process of sensemaking in order to increase her analytic capability. She has presented work at the 2021 SANS CTI Summit, GRIMMCON, SOCstock, the 2020 SANS Threat Hunting & Incident Response Summit, All the Talks Con, and so much more.

Nicole currently holds a BS in Information Technology with a minor in Cyber Security along with CompTIA's Sec+. She is available to consult and present and can be found on Twitter as @threathuntergrl. You can check out her blog at threathuntergirl.com.

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