Team

Lead Developer, Board of Directors, Founder

Victor Julien

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 resides in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

President & Executive Director, Board of Directors

Kelley Misata, PhD

Kelley is a strategic leader, speaker, and innovator who combines over 15 years in business leadership roles with a passion for facilitating critical conversations around responsible digital citizenship, digital safety, and privacy. Her work with The Open Information Security Foundation and past work at The Tor Project spans across fundraising, advocacy, policy discussions, marketing, and outreach activities with an array of stakeholders. She is also expanding her groundbreaking dissertation research in the information security of non-profits workings with victims of violence. Kelley combines professional and research endeavors with a unique perspective as a survivor of cyberstalking. She continually draws on current trends and conversations in information security and privacy to create strategies that focus on intersect people, process, and technology. Bringing to the table a fearless and unique perspective on privacy and security drives Kelley’s successes in her professional and academic endeavors. Kelley holds a PhD in Information Security from Purdue University specializing in the information security of organizations working with victims of violence, a MA in Business Administration, and BS in Marketing.

Developer

Eric Leblond

Eric is an active member of the security and open source communities. He is a Netfilter Core Team member working mainly on communications between kernel and userland. He works on the development of Suricata, the open source IDS/IPS since 2009 and he is currently one of the Suricata core developers. He is also one of the founders of Stamus Networks, a company providing security solutions based on Suricata.

Lead QA/Trainer for Suricata

Peter Manev

Developer

Jason Ish

Jason is a professional software developer with over a decade of experience developing and integrating open source solutions in the security and networking fields. Jason’s experience covers device drivers right up to user interfaces, including co-founding and acting as a CTO of an IDS integrator which was later acquired. Jason currently resides in Saskatoon, Canada.

Director of Training & Academic Initiatives

Josh Stroschein

Josh is an experienced malware analyst and reverse engineer and has a passion for sharing his knowledge with others. He is the Director of Training for OISF, where he leads all training activity for the foundation and is also responsible for academic outreach and developing research initiatives. Josh is an accomplished trainer, providing training in the aforementioned subject areas at BlackHat, DerbyCon, Toorcon, Hack-In-The-Box, Suricon, and other public and private venues. Josh is an Assistant Professor of Cyber Security at Dakota State University where he teaches malware analysis and reverse engineering, an author on Pluralsight, and a threat researcher for Bromium.

Developer

Philippe Antoine

Developer

Shivani Bhardwaj

Shivani graduated in 2016 and started her career with Python development. She was an intern with the Netfilter project and also a recipient of a scholarship from The Linux Foundation. She has been associated with several open-source communities ever since and promotes women in STEM. Shivani does not have a particular place of stay but she’s found somewhere in India for most of the year.

Developer for Suricata

Andreas Herz

Developer

Jeff Lucovsky

Jeff is a software developer with a strong interest in system level programming and network security. He’s new to the open source community and looks forward to applying his experience with high performance computing, multiprocessing, and systems programming to Suricata. Jeff resides in North Carolina, US.

Trainer

Travis Green

Travis has deep roots in the IT world, but transitioned to security in 2007. He now spends his days detecting, hunting, and remediating threats using open source technologies. Travis has written over 3000 rules for the Emerging Threats rulesets both as a open source contributor and professional rule writer. As an avid outdoorsman, Travis can be found wandering the wilderness of Montana when not glued to a terminal window.

Trainer & Researcher

Jack Mott

Jack is a security researcher who focuses on open source solutions to detect, track and hunt malware and malicious activity. He has been a signature writer for the Emerging Threats team for several years, producing community/premium Suricata signatures to help protect networks worldwide. Jack is a strong believer in the open source mission as well as helping people and organizations solve security issues with open source solutions. He resides in the USA.

Systems Administrator

Phil Schroeder

Phil is a Linux system administrator and master troubleshooter, and has been working in that space for roughly 20 years.  He has been with Emerging Threats (now Proofpoint) since 2011, and has been working with OISF in some format since then as well.  Phil resides in Indiana, in the USA.

Board of Directors, Founder

Matt Jonkman

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.

Board of Directors

Gene Stevens

Gene is a co-founder and the CTO at ProtectWise, where he drives its technology vision and architecture. He has more than 20 years experience in software development, cloud computing, security-as-a-service, and distributed systems. Prior to founding ProtectWise, Gene was the Founder and CTO at TagLabs, a mobile tagging company. He was a Principal Software Engineer at McAfee, Cloud & Content Security and has also held engineering roles at MX Logic and GDX. Early in his career, Gene developed financial forecasting, market analysis and service capacity planning software for Hewitt Associates (Aon).

Board of Directors

Brian Casserly, JD, MBA

Brian’s legal practice representing technology companies in all stages of the business cycle keeps him at the forefront of legal issues confronting companies in today’s rapidly changing environments. His work routinely includes company formation, raising capital through private securities, contract and joint venture negotiations, equity compensation, and mergers & acquisitions. Brian also represents venture capital and privacy equity funds, as well as angel investors, in structuring investment vehicles and negotiating terms. Prior to practicing law, he spent several years in the finance industry.

Board of Directors

Charles-H. Schulz

Charles-H. is a French technologist and a Free Software and Open Standards advocate. He is a long-time contributor to free and open source projects such as Document Foundation and the LibreOffice. He is considered a renowned expert promoting the adoption of the OpenDocument Format standard through the company he co-founded, Ars Aperta. A former director of the OASIS Consortium, he has engaged in various digital public policy debates at the European level. He is a founding member and one of the former directors of the Document Foundation, home of the LibreOffice project. Charles-H. is now a member of the French national cyber security agency, ANSSI.