Biography
Carlos leads ICANN's engagement with the trust and public safety communities (civil/criminal law enforcement, national cyber security centers, consumer protection, incident response teams, threat intelligence, operational security). His portfolio includes trust-groups, national/defense/police response teams, and organizations like the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), the National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA), the Global Cyber Alliance or the Cyber Defence Alliance, among others.
His work is focused on materializing ICANN's mandate to help ensure that the DNS remains stable, secure and resilient, by:
-- Provide internal and external stakeholders globally with subject matter expertise on different aspects of online malicious activity as it relates to the Domain Name System and online infrastructure.
-- Trust-based collaboration with worldwide cyber law enforcement and the incident response, threat intel and opsec communities.
-- Capability building, via leading ICANN's efforts towards training his target communities in matters related to security and threats against or through the DNS.
He served in the past in ICANN's Contractual Compliance Team where he managed the team responsible for processing all registrar-related complaints worldwide. He also provided key subject matter expert advice and guidance to ICANN's Contractual Compliance Audit Program and to the gTLD registry-related work of the Compliance Team.
Prior to joining ICANN, Carlos participated in the International Attorneys Program at Holland & Knight in Miami and served as the head of the Legal & Business Affairs Division at Sony Music for Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Peru. While in this position he was a member of the Andean legal committee of the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry).
A pioneer in Latin America in matters related to software anti-piracy, information security from a legal perspective and cyber crime, initially through his work with the local law firm of the Business Software Alliance in Colombia since 1998. His articles on piracy and terrorism, cybercrime, botnets, digital evidence, criminal aspects related to the use of honeypots, legal aspects of information security standards, the Budapest Convention, and other related matters have been published in Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico and Spain. He taught computer law, legal aspects of information security and intellectual property in two universities in Bogota and has lectured before many different audiences in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Carlos is a former co-chair of M3AAWG's Anti-Phishing Special Interest Group and is a co-chair of M3AAWG's Names and Numbers Committee. Also, he is a co-founder of the DNS Abuse Special Interest Group at FIRST.
Carlos is an attorney graduated from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota. He holds a Master of Laws degree from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, and has studies on networking with TCP/IP from UCLA.