Carlos Friaças

Carlos was born in Lisbon (Portugal), and graduated in Computer Science at the University of Lisbon in 1999. He was a Systems Engineer at University of Lisbon from 1996 to 2000 — with a short spell at FCCN, working for the Portuguese Schools’ Network Team and ccTLD .PT. Back to FCCN during 2000, he managed the Portuguese Internet Exchange (Gigapix) for 15 years, participating at Euro-IX (euro-ix.net), while also contributing to the Networking Team, responsible for AS1930’s backbone.

Since late 2015 he moved into CyberSecurity, taking a leadership role at RCTS CERT, the Portuguese R&E Network’s Computer Emergency Response Team. From 2017 to 2018 he was the Chairman of the Portuguese CSIRT Network’s General Assembly and from 2021 to 2022 a member of the Steering Committee (redecsirt.pt). He was also LinhaAlerta’s manager between 2016 and 2018, and represented the portuguese Hotline at the INHOPE Association (inhope.org). He now usually attends FIRST and TF-CSIRT mostly focusing on incident response and anti-abuse issues.