Austin Larsen

Bio

Austin Larsen is a Principal Threat Analyst with the Google Threat Intelligence Group. Austin leads rapid response and investigation coordination for major global cyber events, driving threat research, communication strategies, and response to safeguard Google's users and global customer base.

Previously, Austin spent time on Mandiant's Advanced Practices team clustering and attributing advanced cyber threat activity. Austin was also a Senior Incident Response Consultant at Mandiant where he specialized in helping hundreds of organizations respond to attacks from nation-state actors and advanced threat groups.

Austin's research spans nation-state intrusion campaigns, zero-day exploitation, supply chain compromises, and large-scale data extortion operations. His investigations have directly led to criminal arrests, public attribution of state-sponsored threat actors, and policy-level responses from foreign governments. Austin's work has been cited by U.S. government bodies including the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in their Annual Report to Congress, informing lawmakers on Chinese state-backed cyberespionage threats.