Meet the Expletive: Ben Brigida, Senior Director, SOC Operations

**Executive summary:** Ben Brigida, Expel’s Senior Director of SOC Operations Support, describes his unusual career path from studying bats to cybersecurity, his role overseeing detection and threat operations, approaches to SOC culture and training, and an anecdote about naming a memory‑resident backdoor; the piece is a personnel/profile article rather than a technical incident or threat report.