Johanna Curiel is a security engineer and researcher with 15 years experience in programming, testing and quality control. Her early encounters with hackers and cybercrime was a turning point in her career to work in the area of security engineering. Between 2005 and 2007, she worked as web developer for SafeBoot, which was later sold to McAfee. In 2009, she obtained a master's degree in Information Security from Liverpool University.