Madalina Baltatu has been a security researcher for the cybersecurity department of Telecom Italia Mobile since 2002. She has a Ph.D. in Network Security from the Politecnico di Torino (2001). Her main areas of interest are cyber security, cyber threat intelligence, network security, anomaly detection techniques for IDS/IPS systems, biometrics-based authentication and encryption, mobile security (mobile malware analysis). She is a member of GSMA, was involved in many security related European funded projects, recent ones being NEMESYS (as TIM coordinator and work package lead), 5G-ENSURE (as privacy task lead) and CONCORDIA (threat intelligence and DDoS pilots). She is also the author of various of several international patents.