ThreatSTOP - Interpol of the Internet

The Company

ThreatSTOP was founded to bring the best practices and tools available to large organizations with dedicated Security Operations Centers, and the advantages of dynamic threat source detection and blocking, to the wider Internet. Based on experience using the Internet Storm Center's DShield project, and with encouragement from Marc Sachs and others, Tom Byrnes founded ThreatSTOP to make threat data actionable, automatically, in real time. Our patent pending technique using the ubiquitous, standard DNS protocol, allows ThreatSTOP to be used on a wide variety of devices from different vendors.

With a vision of the network effects and improved security for all that can be created by a virtuous cycle of protection and reporting breeding ever more accurate and faster protection, ThreatSTOP worked out the details and expanded its sources of intelligence, as well as adding detailed reporting capabilities based on user feedback, during an extensive development and beta test period from 2006 until early 2010. ThreatSTOP continues to expand the sources of intelligence it uses, the range of supported devices, and improve the processing of user-supplied data to generate ever better threat coverage, reporting, and protection for more types of endpoints.

Management Team

Tomás Byrnes Founder and CEO
Tom has held technical leadership positions in both civilian and military (US Army Signal Corps ) capacities in all areas of Information Technology, including: Manufacturers (Radware ); VARs (Datatech and others); Distributors (Vitek); as CTO of an ISP and e-commerce hosting company (ADNC.com ); and Sr. VP of Technology of Zero Gravity Internet Group, a Mutual and Venture fund that provided the initial financing to Oingo, which you know today as Google Adwords/Adsense. Tom has been involved in the Internet and related technologies since he first logged on to ESANET in 1981.

Boris Veksler VP Engineering
Boris comes to ThreatSTOP from Betria Systems where he built algorithmically complex software, including: a Web Application Firewall for Windows IIS; a super fast neural networks cluster implementation running 4,000 stream cores; and Software as a Service products for youth sports market and others. Prior to Betria, Boris served as VP of Engineering and IT for TradeBeam and was responsible for building and operating global trade management system for clients including Johnson Controls, Neiman Marcus and Tyco. Boris has over 20 years of experience in project management, software development and consulting engineering. He received his M.B.A. from the Anderson School at UCLA, and an M.S. and B.S. in Structural Analysis and Mathematics from St. Petersburg Technical University.

David Daugherty VP Customer Experience
After working on seminal projects in e-commerce @ Virtual Dreams and ADN (ArtistDirect and Java @ Superbowl), David ran QA for Ipivot, and after the purchase, Intel Network Products Division. Subsequently David was MIS Director for MAS, where he was responsible for a widely dispersed network that managed multi-million dollar properties.

Dave Landes Director of Sales, Americas and Pacific
After 10 years as a CFP, RIA in the Financial Services arena, Dave entered sales in Hi-Tech in 1991 with a small Southern California VAR, Datatech. building sales at Datatech to over $10 million. Dave went to Nortel Networks in 2000 as a Regional Sales Manager. He joined Deloitte & Touche, LLP as a Senior Manager, National Marketing in 2003. Dave has over 30 years sales experience at a Regional and National level

Francis Turner Director of Sales, Europe, Asia & Africa
Francis Turner has worked for over 20 years in the IT and data communication industries, starting with a stint at IBM in the mid 1980s before reading Computer Science at Cambridge University. Subsequently he worked for Madge Networks and Bay Networks. After the latter merged with Nortel, he became the European Product Manager for their enterprise switching division. In 2001 he left Nortel Networks to take on a role of CIO at a small biotech company that was seminal in the use of computation in the analysis and creation of new enzymatic processes. Most recently he worked at a consultancy firm assisting ICT companies with their multinational product marketing and business development.

Board of Directors

Vasilis Mouratoff Member BOD and Advisor
Mr. Mouratoff is a successful entrepreneur, senior advisor and executive with extensive background in product management, capital markets and intellectual property. As the CEO of Cornerstone Acquisition and Management Company, Mr. Mouratoff managed the Caritas Royalty Funds, voted as one of the top 5 performing niche strategy Hedge Funds from 2004-2008. Formerly, Mr. Mouratoff served as Senior Managing Director of Sales at UNX, Inc, a private electronic trading software services company serving institutional clients with channel partnerships with UBS and Goldman Sachs. Mr. Mouratoff has extensive experience in buy and sell-side finance beginning as a Managing Director at Furman Selz, LLC (now a division of ING Barings). Prior to his finance career Mr. Mouratoff served as senior legal counsel to SEQUUS Pharmaceuticals, a publicly traded Biotech company that was sold to Alza, Inc (now a division of Johnson & Johnson, Inc.). Currently, Mr. Mouratoff serves as the CEO and Co-Founder of San Diego based Turning Point Energy. He has BA in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a graduate degree from McGeorge School of Law.

Dave Roberts Member BOD
Mr. Roberts has two decades of experience in networking, computer engineering and strategic product development. Prior to his current role as vice president of strategy and marketing at ServiceMesh, Mr. Roberts held a similar role at open networking vendor Vyatta, where he crafted the marketing and communications strategy that positioned Vyatta as the leader in open networking. Prior to Vyatta, Mr. Roberts was the co-founder, CTO, and vice president of strategy at Inkra networks where he provided the product and strategy direction that captured a tier-one customer base including IBM, EDS, AT&T, and NEC. Prior to Inkra, Mr. Roberts was vice president of product management for Nortel Networks, responsible for product strategy and definition related to the company's line of Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet switches and campus ATM switches. Additionally, He forged key strategic alliances and OEM relationships. Mr. Roberts has also held management positions at Bay Networks, Rapid City Communications, Cabletron Systems, ZeitNet, and AMD, where he spearheaded Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, and WiFi product lines and strategic marketing initiatives. He began his career with engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard. Experienced in numerous networking and software technologies, Mr. Roberts holds ten patents, and is the author of three books. Mr. Roberts holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Advisors

Karl Brensike Advisor
Mr. Brensike is an experienced internet entrepreneur having been CEO and Co-Founder of netHESIVE, Inc. before its sale to Channel Intelligence in 2001. netHESIVE used advanced personalization technology to link like-minded internet users and enhance their search experience. From 2001 to 2004 Mr. Brensike excelled as a screenwriter and published author before entering the oil and gas industry. Mr. Brensike spent 5 years as the Senior Managing Director of the Caritas Royalty Funds, which were top performers during his tenure. Currently, Mr. Brensike serves as the Senior Managing Director and Co-Founder of San Diego based Turning Point Energy. He has a BA in Entrepreneurship and a Minor in Film from the University of Southern California.

Marcus H. Sachs, P.E. Advisor
Marcus Sachs is the Executive Director for National Security and Cyber Policy at Verizon in Washington, D.C. where he works closely with government and business stakeholders in task forces, working groups, committees, and trade associations as part of the National Security/Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP) community in the Nation's Capital. In January 2010 he was elected to be the secretary of the US Communications Sector Coordinating Council. In November 2007 Mr. Sachs was named a member of the Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency. Since August 2003 he has directed the all-volunteer SANS Internet Storm Center.
Mr. Sachs extensive and illustrious career, which includes a 20 year Military career, can be more completely viewed here

Winn Schwartau Advisor
Winn Schwartau is one of the world's top experts on security, privacy, infowar, cyber-terrorism and related topics. Provocative, informed, challenging, he's on the leading edge of thinking, writing and speaking. Highly technical security subjects are made understandable, entertaining, engaging and thought-provoking. Audiences find themselves challenged with original ideas which are related through historical analogy and metaphor and made relevant to the present and future world. In November 2009, was named one of the Top 20 Security Industry Pioneers.
Named one of the Top 25 Most Influential People for 2008 by Security Magazine.
Voted one of the Top 5 Security Thinkers for 2007 by SC magazine.
In 2002, honored as a Power Thinker and one of the 50 most powerful people by Network World.
His homepage is here.

Johannes Ullrich Advisor
As Chief Research Officer for the SANS Institute, Johannes is currently responsible for the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) and the GIAC Gold program.
He founded DShield.org in 2000, which is now the data collection engine behind the ISC. His work with the ISC has been widely recognized, and in 2004, Network World named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the networking industry.
Prior to working for SANS, Johannes worked as a lead support engineer for a web development company and as a research physicist.
Johannes holds a Ph.D. in Physics from SUNY Albany

Daniel D. Vrechek , ESQ Advisor
Daniel has been an attorney with Qualcomm Incorporated since 1999. He currently serves as managing counsel to Qualcom's Internet Services division chartered with facilitating the transition from mobile voice and data to mobile content and experiences. Prior to leaving for Qualcomm, Mr. Vrechek served in various positions focusing on outsourcing partner agreements and strategic relationsships for Space Systems/Loral, Inc. He holds a B.A. degree in Economics from University of Wisconsin, a M.B.A. from San Diego State University and a J.D. from Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

Partners

ThreatSTOP has partnerships with many of the leading security clearing houses and think tanks on the internet. We are keen to form more of the same with other players in the internet security field so please do not hesitate to contact us if this might apply to you.

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