J. Vera Liao

2024

Amazon GuardDuty introduces GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection

I led the UX work for this new capability, helping customers identify sophisticated, multi-stage attacks across their AWS accounts, workloads, and data. Customers can now surface attack sequences that span multiple resources and data sources over extended time periods, reducing first-level analysis and enabling faster, more focused response to high-severity threats. These detections center on compromised credentials—cloud’s most common attack vector—and compromised data, the organization’s most critical asset.

2017

Ecosystem or Echo-System? Exploring Content Sharing across Alternative Media Domains

I contributed to the project’s analytical and visual work, helping shape insights that became central to the study’s findings. The research later gained academic recognition when it was published at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2018).