Jonathan Gonzalez
Jonathan Gonzalez graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a major in Cybersecurity and Information Systems and a minor in Digital Forensics in 2020. During his collegiate career he worked in Application Security, Security Operations and Vulnerability Management before doing Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) at Crowdstrike. He is now an Assistant Vice President (AVP) of Cyber Threat Intelligence at Synchrony Financial, where he works to build and test enterprise defenses for key stakeholders. Currently, he is a graduate student studying Global Security Studies at Johns Hopkins University, deepening his understanding of the intersection between cybersecurity and global security. Outside of his professional and academic pursuits,
Session
Cyber-enabled fraud cost Americans nearly $21 billion in 2025, according to the FBI. This session examines the Fraud Kill Chain and the new MITRE Cyber Fraud Framework and challenges the misconception that cyberfraud requires sophistication or insider access. It shows how exposed APIs, weak authentication, and targeted phishing create real attack surfaces, and how API monitoring, device fingerprinting, threat intelligence, and AI can help detect, disrupt, and break the fraud kill chain.