Meet the editors who sign every page
Four full-time security researchers — not freelance bloggers — write and review every page on SafeScan Now. Each editor signs the articles they verify, and any correction is logged on the page itself.
Liang Chen
Senior Security Researcher
CISSP · CEH
Eleven years across endpoint protection vendors and an independent threat lab. Liang reviews scoring methodology and the malware education tier, and reproduces lab tests on isolated VMs before publication.
Endpoint detection, malware family taxonomy
38 articles
Sarah Lin
Threat Intelligence Analyst
GCTI · GREM
Spent six years in a Fortune 100 SOC tracking phishing kits and credential-theft markets. Sarah owns the phishing and identity-protection coverage and replicates real attack chains in our sandbox before scoring them.
Phishing, social engineering, infostealers
27 articles
Kenji Watanabe
Endpoint Security Engineer
GCED · OSEP
Built the deployment automation that runs our HP EliteBook benchmark fleet. Kenji designs the performance tests behind the Performance pillar (20% of every score) and signs off on every benchmark dataset.
Performance benchmarking, false-positive analysis
22 articles
Maria Volkov
Privacy Analyst
OSCP · CIPP/E
Former privacy engineer at a European telecom regulator. Maria leads our privacy and ownership investigations — including the Kape, Avast, and TotalAV ownership maps — and personally reviews every Privacy History score.
Privacy policy review, telemetry analysis, ownership history
19 articles
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