Richard Bejtlich is the Chief Security Manager at Mandiant. He is also founded TaoSecurity to develop capabilities to detect, contain, and remediate intrusions using network security monitoring (NSM) principles. Visit the TaoSecurity Blog for the latest news on this work.

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.

Joel Ebrahimi is a solutions engineer at Bivio Networks, where he helps service providers, carriers and government organizations deploy DPI-enabled systems for improved network security, visibility, control and monetization.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Ebrahimi has developed a specialization in high-speed packet analysis, firewall integration, network intrusion prevention/detection, host-based intrusion prevention, open vulnerability and assessment language (OVAL), common vulnerabilities and exposure (CVE) and compliance. He holds a bachelor’s in computer science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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 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.

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.

Anoop has experience from RSA, Sasken, and on Mozilla through the Google summer of code program. Anoop's experience with the RSA Access manager, j2me apps on cell platforms, and automation frameworks is an invaluable addition to the team. Anoop resides in Mangalore, India. 

Eric Leblond

Programmer

Eric Leblond has been a security and open source professional since the end of the 20th century. He has created and has been lead on the NuFW project
aimed at creating an identity based enterprise firewall. He is a long-term contributor of Netfilter, the packet filtering framework inside Linux where, among other work, he has made major contribution to ulogd2, the userspace logging daemon.

A frequent speaker in French free software and security conferences, Eric also writes articles in the specialized press like Linux Magazine France. For example, he was the main author of the Netfilter special issue (http://www.ed-diamond.com/produit.php?ref=lmhs41). He is also co-founder of the INL/EdenWall company where, as CTO, he succeeded in building enterprise-grade network appliances based on NuFW. Eric is now a freelance consultant in security and free software.  

Peter Manev

Peter has 10 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 resides in Gothenburg, Sweden. 

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.

Nathan has over 10 years experience in IT Project Management and Systems Analysis.  In his role as project manager, Nathan will be working with all OISF employees and contractors managing task assignments, the project plan and participating in the documentation initiatives for the application.  Most recently his focus has been on government funded programs, he has managed projects funded by the NSF, SBA, DoD and more. Nathan resides in Redlands, California.  

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

Josh is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology and studied Information Security and Forensics.