Mark Parsons is a threat hunter for Sophos Managed Detection and Response. He specializes in threat hunting, digital forensics, and incident response. Previous notable achievements include identifying multi-month nation state intrusions; working with multiple states’ cybersecurity programs before, during, and after the 2020 election cycle to improve their detection and response capabilities; finding rarely seen (second reporter) bugs in Microsoft Azure/CAP logs; and identifying multiple initial access brokers prior to their targets’ being compromised by second actors.