As its CEO, Jennifer Steffens is responsible for all aspects of IOActive's North American business operations including sales, delivery, and finance as well as driving the company's strategic vision.  Steffens brings a wealth of industry and business experience to the company, having been an early member of several successful startups.

Earlier in her career, Steffens was a Director at Sourcefire, where she helped build and grow the business from $250K to over $35M run rate in just four years.  Working closely with the CTO, Steffens helped commerfialize the open source Snort technology and build several service offerings around the research initiatives.  Prior to joining IOActive, she came to Seattle to help the struggling startup GraniteEdge reinvent itself.  She spearheaded initiatives to restructure the company, and developed a product strategy to drive early market penetration that ultimately secured two additional rounds of funding.

Dr. Jose Nazario is a Senior Security Researcher with Arbor Networks.  In this capacity, he is responsible for analyzing burgeoning Internet security threats, reverse enginnering malicious code, software development, and developing security mechanisms that are then distributed to Arbor's Peakflow platforms via the Active Threat Feed (ATF) threat detection service.

Dr. Nazario's research interests include large-scale Internet trends such as reachability and topology measurement, Internet-scale events such as DDoS attacks, botnets and worms, source code analysis tools, and data mining.  He is the author of the books, "Defense and Detection Strategies against Internet Worms" and "Secure Architectures with OpenBSD".  He earned a Ph.D.in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University in 2002.  Prior to joining Arbor Networks, he was an independent security consultant.  Dr. Nazario regularly speaks at conferences worldwide, with past presentations at CanSecWest, PacSec, Blackhat, and NANOG.  He also maintains WormBlog.com, a site devoted to studying worm detection and defense research.

Matt brings over 10 years of security and entrepreneurial experience to the foundation. Matt is the founder of Emerging Threats, formerly known as Bleeding Snort/Bleeding Threats. Emerging Threats is NSF and Army Research Office Funded to maintain a public IDS Signature Ruleset. This makes Matt a consumer of the OISF Engine and an ideal person to lead the foundation. 

Matt Spent five years in the Army as an Air Traffic Control RADAR and Communications Tech, several years in Sprint Corporate Security and Banking security.He currently works for Metaflows under NSF grant funding as well as leading Emerging Threats and the OISF. Matt resides in Lafayette, Indiana.

Mr. Norton is a Project Lead at BAE Systems, manages a group of Security Analysts, and does Anomaly based IDS R&D with the NIDAR Intrusion Detection System.

Mr. Norton worked for six years as a Lead Developer and Team Lead for the Snort IDS project while at Sourcefire,Inc with multiple contributions to the Snort detection engine.

Mr. Norton worked as a Principle Developer on the Dragon IDS and built one of the first Gigabit IDS detection engines while at Enterasys,Inc.

Mr. Norton's other experience includes 18 years as an Aerospace Engineer and software developer performing Structural Dynamic Analysis and tool development on the Space Shuttle.

Stuart joined Endace Technology in December 2005 as VP Engineering, and now as CTO, is responsible for all product development.

Stuart managed the L4-7 Test program for Agilent's Data Networks Division (DND).  Stuart was responsible for the integration and operations of the recently acquired IP & people associated with Agilent's acquisition of L4-7 technology from Synthetic Networks Incorporated (SNI).

Prior to joining Endace Technology, Stuart worked at Hewett-Packar/Agilent Technologies.  Starting in 1997 as a research and development engineer designing high speed FPGA systems for communications test.  At his time at HP/Agilent, Stuart has managed several ground breaking products to market, notably Agilent's 40G RouterTest, delivering Layer-III 40G test capability to the market, and more recently, Agilent's NetworkTester product delivering application layer security test to the security device market.

Prior to that, Stuart worked at Philips Radio, designing custom radio communications systems, GEC Research in London as a custom ASIC designer in their VHSIC design labs, and for his own ASIC design company for 8 years.

Stuart was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1959 and holds a degree with Honours in Electronics & Communications Engineering from LaTrobe University in Melbourne, and a Postgraduate Degree in Management from the Melbourne Business School.

Matt brings over 10 years of security and entrepreneurial experience to the foundation. Matt is the founder of Emerging Threats, formerly known as Bleeding Snort/Bleeding Threats. Emerging Threats is NSF and Army Research Office Funded to maintain a public IDS Signature Ruleset. This makes Matt a consumer of the OISF Engine and an ideal person to lead the foundation. 

Matt Spent five years in the Army as an Air Traffic Control RADAR and Communications Tech, several years in Sprint Corporate Security and Banking security.He currently works for Metaflows under NSF grant funding as well as leading Emerging Threats and the OISF. Matt resides in Lafayette, Indiana.

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. Will currently resides in Kansas City, Missouri.

Josh Smith

Infrastructure

Josh is currently an undergraduate at Rochester Institute of Technology studying Information Security and Forensics.  During the summer, he works as an intern for VeriSign iDefense on the Malcode Operations team.  He is also heading up the RIT Honeynet Project Chapter.

Brian Rectanus (GCIA, GCIH) is the Director of Research Development at Breach Security, Inc. At Breach, he spends his time developing for and refining Web Application Firewalls, making them more efficient, easier to integrate with existing systems and more transparent to install. Brian also manages the open source ModSecurity Apache based Web Application Firewall project. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Kansas State University and has been developing, administering and securing large scale web sites for the past 10 years. Brian comes to the foundation as a timeshare from Breach Security. Brian resides in San Diego, California.

Jason leads the Endace IDS team, with special interests in hardware acceleration for intrusion detection. Jason resides in Auckland, New Zealand