Mona Elisabeth Østvang is a board member of FIRST (The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams), holds a Master's of Technology from NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), and is currently working as a researcher in mnemonic's R&D department.

For the last ten years, she has been involved in a number of incident response situations as an incident manager, which entails leading investigations of different types of incidents, including several nation-state threat actor campaigns in Norway and abroad.

Mona's work contributes to tactical analysts gaining a better understanding of threat actors, which is important when managing a serious incident. She also studies how IRT teams' approach to an incident affects the breached organisation, asking questions like; "What benefits do we gain from taking the time to really understand what is going on?" and "What are the downsides of doing so?".