Kayla Kraines

Experience

1. Senior Cyber Security Engineer

   MITRE

   May 2020 — Present

   Successfully managed and mentored teams that delivered impactful solutions across multiple sponsors and technical domains. • Developed automated adversary emulation testing pipeline, significantly increasing efficacy and efficiency for the next generation of detections. Served as a liaison with the sponsor and shaped the project\'s long-term vision to maximize operational impact.• Expanded the capabilities of Caldera, an open-source adversary emulation tool with thousands of active users, to increase the range of attacks it can perform and enhance its effectiveness in cybersecurity operations. • Developed and integrated advanced noise generation capabilities to automate human behavior, obfuscating Caldera activity on target systems. Published blog posts showcasing these contributions, which have collectively reached over 3,600 views, demonstrating their impact and value to the cybersecurity community.• Designed and publicly released a methodology for detecting malicious implementations of ambiguous techniques, improving detections and global threat hunting.

Education

• Bais Yaakov of Baltimore

  High School Diploma

  2000 — 2013

• University of Maryland Baltimore County

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Communications Track

  2014 — 2018