Prakas Thevendaran is a Cybersecurity Researcher at Acronis, focusing on automation, behavioral and static rule development, and malware analysis. Since joining Acronis in 2022, he has been dedicated to continuously strengthening threat detection capabilities through research and tooling. Before Acronis, Prakas was a malware analyst specializing in crafting behavioral rules for a malware analysis sandbox product. With more than nine years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, he is particularly passionate about reverse engineering and understanding threats at a deeper level.