Awards

• Channel Chief 2024 CRN
• Channel Chief 2023 CRN

Education

• Certified Product Manager, Pragmatic Marketing, October 2006.
• SANS GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), February 2005.
• IBM IT Security Methodology Certification, March 2003.
• Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), November 2002.
• Masters in Computer Science from Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland
• Teaching assistant for Network Security 2001 at ETH Zurich.

Investor

• Vertex Ventures
• Ballistic Ventures
• Lumia Capital (until 2020)

Patents

• US-11902294-B2 Using human factors when calculating a risk score, 2/13/24
• US 11,295,023 B2 DEFINING GROUPS OF BEHAVIORS FOR STORAGE WITHIN AN ENTITY BEHAVIOR CPC CATALOG, 4/5/22
• US 11,295,022 B2 ENTITY BEHAVIOR CATALOG ARCHITECTURE 4/5/22
• US 11,314,871 B2 DISRUPTING A CYBER KILL CHAIN WHEN PERFORMING SECURITY OPERATIONS, 4/26/22
• US 11,487,883 B2 INFERRING A SCENARIO WHEN PERFORMING A SECURITY OPERATION USING AN ENTITY BEHAVIOR CATALOG
• US 11,516,225 B2 HUMAN FACTORS FRAMEWORK, 11/29/22
• US 11,546,351 B2 USING HUMAN FACTORS WHEN PERFORMING A HUMAN FACTOR RISK OPERATION, 1/3/23
• US 11,563,752 B2 USING INDICATORS OF BEHAVIOR TO IDENTIFY A SECURITY PERSONA OF AN ENTITY, 1/24/23
• US 11,601,441 B2 USING INDICATORS OF BEHAVIOR WHEN PERFORMING A SECURITY OPERATION, 3/7/23
• US 11,645,395 B2 ENTITY BEHAVIOR CATALOG ACCESS MANAGEMENT, 5/9/23
• US 11,630,902 B2 REPRESENTING SETS O F BEHAVIORS WITHIN AN ENTITY BEHAVIOR CATALOG, 4/18/23
• US 11,621,964 B2 ANALYZING AN EVENT ENACTED BY A DATA ENTITY WHEN PERFORMING A SECURITY OPERATION, 4/4/23

Advisory Boards

• Balkan ID
• TechStars Cloud - Mentor
• Plug and Play - Mentor

Past Advisory Boards

• Synapse Partners
• Panaseer
• Vicarius
• Respond Software (Acquired by FireEye)
• Senrio
• Sift Security (Acquired by Netskope)
• AlienVault (Acquired by ATT)
• BitFusion (Acquired by VMWare)
• Aegify (formerly eGestalt)
• Microbial Robotics

Memberships

• IANS Faculty of Security Experts, 2009 until present
• HoneyNet Alliance, 2008 until present, Bay Area Chapter
• Apache Spot Committer, 2017 until present.
• University of Advancing Technology Academic Advisory Board, 2010 - 2015

Conference Boards / Program Committees

• IEEE International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics 2015, Technical Committee
• IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics 2013, Program Committee
• Correlate IT 2013, Program Committee
• Data Insight hackathon, Advisory Board, July 2012
• DHS CATCH, Cybersecurity Applications and Technologies Conference for Homeland Security 2008, Program Committee
• hashdays, 2010, Program Committee
• Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs (WASL), 2009, Program Committee
• Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs (WASL), 2008, Program Committee
• SOURCE Seattle and Barcelona, 2011, Conference Advisory Board
• SOURCE Boston and Barcelona, 2010, Conference Advisory Board
• SOURCE Boston and Barcelona, 2009, Conference Advisory Board
• SOURCE Boston, 2008, Conference Advisory Board
• VizSec 2021, Program Committee
• VizSec 2020, Program Committee
• VizSec 2019, Program Committee
• VizSec 2018, Program Committee
• VizSec 2017, Program Committee
• VizSec 2016, Program Committee
• VizSec 2015, Program Committee
• VizSec 2014, Program Committee
• VizSec 2013, Program Committee
• VizSec 2012, Program Committee
• VizSec 2011, Program Committee
• VizSec 2010, Program Committee
• VizSec 2009, Program Committee
• VizSec 2008, Program Committee
• VizSec 2007 Program Committee
• RAID 2008 Program Committee
• RAID 2007 Program Committee
• RAID 2006 Program Committee
• Capture the Flag @DefCon 2005, 2006
• OVAL (Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language), Advisory Board
• CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring Schema), Standard Working Group
• CEE (Common Event Expression), Founding Member