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I am a retired cybersecurity executive who, while investing in and advising start-ups, spends the bulk of my “work” time volunteering for cybersecurity related organizations. This includes ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) [Chair 2018-2023], being a Senior Advisor to the Messaging Malware Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), serving the board of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) and participating in numerous other industry organizations. I provide occasional consulting and expert witness services via R2 Cyber, where I am the Principal. I also am a board member for multiple start-up companies.
Prior to retirement, I co-founded the cybersecurity company IID and was the company’s President & CTO prior to its acquisition by Infoblox in 2016. My particular expertise has been in the abuse of the domain name system by criminals. I am also an active participant in the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) and a semi-regular participant in DNS-OARC meetings. Finally, I’ve been a long-standing member of the Advisory Board for the School of Engineering and Technology at the University of Washington Tacoma.
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It has been my distinct pleasure to serve on ICANN's Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services (EWG). We put in many long months and what seemed like countless hours of research, discussion, meetings, and deliberations on how to tackle a clean-slate approach to gTLD directory services, popularly known as "WHOIS". In our Final Report, the Expert Working Group (EWG) recommended a Registration Directory Service (RDS) to replace today's WHOIS, providing a next-generation system to better meet the needs of the evolving global Internet with greater accuracy, privacy, and accountability. more
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