Elisa Costante

• VP of Research
• Forescout, Netherlands

Elisa Costante, Phd., is the VP of Threat Research at Forescout. In her role, she leads the activities of Forescout Research – Vedere Labs, a team of cyber security researchers focused on vulnerability research, threat analysis and threat mitigation for OT and unmanaged devices. Under her leadership, Vedere Labs has discovered 200+ new vulnerabilities in OT and IoT devices and shed light into the implication of supply chain vulnerabilities and in-security by design that affect the OT world. Elisa has 10+ years of experience in OT/IoT/IoMT security space. In her prior role, she was CTO at SecurityMatters, where she led product innovation activities in the field of network intrusion detection. Elisa holds a PhD in Cyber Security from the Eindhoven University of Technology where she specialized in machine learning techniques for data leakage detection.