Juan Andrés Guerrero Saade

Juan Andrés (better known as ‘JAGS’) is a security researcher tracking cyberespionage groups.

JAGS is Senior Technical Fellow (Research & Innovation) and VP for Intelligence and Security Research at SentinelOne. He’s also Distinguished Resident Fellow for Threat Intelligence and Adj. Professor at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies.

Before leading SentinelLabs, Juan Andrés was Google Chronicle’s Research Tsar, co-founder of Stairwell, and a Principal Security Researcher at GReAT focusing on targeted attacks. He worked as Senior Cybersecurity and National Security Advisor to the Government of Ecuador.

Juan Andrés comes from a background of interdisciplinary research in Philosophical Logic. His joint work on Moonlight Maze is now featured in the International Spy Museum's permanent exhibit in Washington, DC. In 2023, JAGS was presented with a Presidential Volunteer Service Award for furthering U.S. cyber preparedness.

JAGS is the Founder of LABScon and co-hosts the Three Buddy Problem podcast with Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

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Keynote: Becoming Ungovernable

You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

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