Carlos Alvarez

Director, Disruption Partnership Program | Signals Research Program

Carlos is Director of ZeroFox's Disruption Partnerships and Signals Research Programs, where he leads threat intelligence research and coordinates abuse mitigation efforts across domain registrars, hosting providers, and social media platforms. With over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, internet governance, and intellectual property enforcement, his career began in Bogotá leading software anti-piracy initiatives led by the Business Software Alliance and serving as Head of Legal for Sony Music's Andean region. He then spent nearly 15 years at ICANN, where he led Contractual Compliance Teams enforcing the rules on domain registrars and top level domains globally, before joining the Security Team, where he worked directly with global law enforcement, threat intelligence providers, and incident response teams on domain abuse and infrastructure threats.

Carlos currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) and the Internet Fire Brigade Society, and serves as a Strategic Advisor to the Global Cyber Alliance. He co-founded the Anti-Phishing and DNS Abuse Special Interest Groups at the Malware, Messaging and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), where he remains co-chair, and the DNS Abuse SIG at the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST). His background across the legal, regulatory, and technical sectors allows him to bridge the gap between policy and real-world threat mitigation.