Adam Flatley is one of the founding members of the IST Ransomware Task Force, a co-author of the April 2021 Ransomware Task Force Report, and has served as a Adjunct Senior Technical Advisor since January 2021. He has over 20 years of cybersecurity and intelligence operations experience, both as a practitioner and a senior leader. This includes leading threat intelligence teams in the private sector security community since 2017. Prior to this, he served for 14 years at the National Security Agency (NSA) in various operational capacities, most recently as the Director of Operations of an organization responsible for incident response, red teaming, vulnerability assessments, and threat hunting on critical networks.