OPEN INFORMATION SECURITY FOUNDATION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Developer
- Member of the Core Team
Andreas is a software developer with a focus on open source and security related projects. He's working in the open source community for over ten years and specialized in Linux networking and Multi-Threading. Andreas resides in Germany. Twitter: https://twitter.com/shad0whunter
Brian Casserly, JD, MBA: Brian's legal practice representing technology companies in all stages of the business cycle keeps him at the forefront of legal issues confronting companies in today's rapidly changing environments. His work routinely includes company formation, raising capital through private securities, contract and joint venture negotiations, equity compensation, and mergers & acquisitions. Brian also represents venture capital and privacy equity funds, as well as angel investors, in structuring investment vehicles and negotiating terms. Prior to practicing law, he spent several years in the finance industry.
Job Titles:
- Developer
- Member of the Core Team
Eric is an active member of the security and open source communities. He is a Netfilter Core Team member working mainly on communications between kernel and userland. He works on the development of Suricata, the open source IDS/IPS since 2009 and he is currently one of the Suricata core developers. He is also one of the founders of Stamus Networks, a company providing security solutions based on Suricata.
Gene Stevens: Gene is a co-founder and the CTO at ProtectWise, where he drives its technology vision and architecture. He has more than 20 years experience in software development, cloud computing, security-as-a-service, and distributed systems. Prior to founding ProtectWise, Gene was the Founder and CTO at TagLabs, a mobile tagging company. He was a Principal Software Engineer at McAfee, Cloud & Content Security and has also held engineering roles at MX Logic and GDX. Early in his career, Gene developed financial forecasting, market analysis and service capacity planning software for Hewitt Associates (Aon).
Job Titles:
- Member of the Core Team
- Researcher
- Trainer
Jack is a security researcher who focuses on open source solutions to detect, track and hunt malware and malicious activity. He has been a signature writer for the Emerging Threats team for several years, producing community/premium Suricata signatures to help protect networks worldwide. Jack is a strong believer in the open source mission as well as helping people and organizations solve security issues with open source solutions. He can be reached on Twitter: @malwareforme and resides in the USA.
Job Titles:
- Developer
- Member of the Core Team
Jason is a professional software developer with over a decade of experience developing and integrating open source solutions in the security and networking fields. Jason's experience covers device drivers right up to user interfaces, including co-founding and acting as a CTO of an IDS integrator which was later acquired. Jason currently resides in Saskatoon, Canada.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Core Team
- Researcher
- Trainer
Jason is a security researcher with global enterprise experience in detecting, hunting and remediating threats with open source technologies. Primarily focusing on network communications, Jason has written thousands of commercial and community Suricata rules for Emerging Threats to help defenders protect their networks. Jason participates as a Signature Development and User Training instructor for the OISF.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Member of the Core Team
- President
- Strategic Leader
Kelley is a strategic leader, speaker, and innovator who combines over 15 years in business leadership roles with a passion for facilitating critical conversations around responsible digital citizenship, digital safety, and privacy. Her work with The Open Information Security Foundation and past work at The Tor Project spans across fundraising, advocacy, policy discussions, marketing, and outreach activities with an array of stakeholders. She is also expanding her groundbreaking dissertation research in the information security of non-profits workings with victims of violence. Kelley combines professional and research endeavors with a unique perspective as a survivor of cyberstalking. She continually draws on current trends and conversations in information security and privacy to create strategies that focus on intersect people, process, and technology. Bringing to the table a fearless and unique perspective on privacy and security drives Kelley's successes in her professional and academic endeavors. Kelley holds a Ph.D. in Information Security from Purdue University specializing in the information security of organizations working with victims of violence, a Masters Degree in Business Administration, and Bachelor of Science in Marketing. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kelley-misata-ph-d-38475636
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Founder of Emerging Threats
Matt Jonkman: Matt brings over 15 years of security and entrepreneurial experience to the foundation. Matt is the founder of Emerging Threats, an open source IDS Ruleset, and Emerging Threats Pro which is a commercial version of the Emerging Threats ruleset. This makes Matt a consumer of the OISF Engine and an ideal person to lead the foundation. Matt resides in Lafayette, Indiana.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Core Team
- Lead QA
Peter has 15 years experience in the IT industry, including enterprise-level IT security practice. An adamant admirer and explorer of innovative open source security software, Peter is currently a Security Solution Architect. Peter maintains some additional info points of interest about Suricata. www.pevma.blogspot.com, https://github.com/pevma, and https://twitter.com/pevma.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Lead Developer
- Member of the Core Team
Victor Julien: Victor has been active as a software developer in the infosec community for many years. He is the creator of the Vuurmuur Firewall project, has been one of the developers at the Snort_inline IPS project. Victor has spent the last years doing contract development on Open Source security software including significant additions to Snort. At the end of 2007, he started development on the OISF codebase on which he now leads the development effort. Victor maintains a blog at http://www.inliniac.net/blog/ and uses Twitter at http://twitter.com/inliniac. Victor resides in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Will comes from the government and law enforcement IT Security sector with over nine years experience. In addition Will has had involvement with various open source projects over the years including snort_inline and maintains a blog at http://node5.blogspot.com. In 2012 Will joined the Emerging Threats Pro team as well. Will currently resides in Kansas City, Missouri.