Justin Foster

Justin Foster

Chief Product Owner - Deep Security at Trend Micro

Location
Ottawa, Canada Area
Industry
Computer Software

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Justin Foster's Overview

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Past
  • Senior Software Developer/Team Lead at Third Brigade
  • Software Developer at KeySpire Inc.
  • Software Developer at Communication Genetics

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Education
  • Loyalist College
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Justin Foster's Summary

Product Owner for Deep Security, a comprehensive protection suite including anti-malware, intrusion prevention, firewall, web application protection, integrity monitoring, and log inspection. I specialize in datacenter and cloud security.

Justin Foster's Experience

Chief Product Owner - Deep Security

Trend Micro

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TYO: 4704; Computer Software industry

February 2013 – Present (5 months)

Responsible for overall direction of Deep Security and Deep Security as a Service (SaaS). I work with a global team of Product Owners to maximize business value of the development teams. Duties include working with stakeholders to understand the goals of the product, defining the product vision, building release plans, grooming the backlog, facilitating sprint planning and demonstrations, and helping refine the agile development process.

Outside of the product owner role I contribute to the Trend Micro Cloud Security Blog and represent Trend Micro on the SME council for the Cloud Security Alliance.

Senior Software Architect

Trend Micro

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TYO: 4704; Computer Software industry

March 2011 – February 2013 (2 years)

Responsible for overall design and technical direction of Deep Security Manager and Deep Security as a Service (SaaS). Oversaw the addition of multi-tenancy, modularization, Amazon Web Services and vCloud support, and new user interface for Deep Security Manager. Duties included research, specification development, design review, code review, feature implementation, bug resolution, project management, performance tuning and evangelism of the Deep Security 8 and 9 releases. Assisted in cross-product integration, sustained engineering and improvement of the development process. Lead a team on the release of Deep Security as a Service for public cloud protection.

Outside of the primary project I contributed as a category lead for the Cloud Security Alliance SECaaS group, helped organize CSA Congress 2011 architecture track and consulted to various projects within Trend Micro.

Software Architect

Trend Micro

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TYO: 4704; Computer Software industry

May 2009 – March 2011 (1 year 11 months)

Responsible for overall design and technical direction of Deep Security Manager (protection for physical, virtual and cloud servers). Oversaw the addition of agentless Anti-Malware for VMware vSphere, platform enhancements, scalability and rebranding. Duties included specifications, design review, code review and scalability testing using Amazon Web Services. Assisted in cross-product integrations, sustained engineering and training. Completed key documents for Common Criteria EAL 4 certification.

Outside of the primary project I conducted research on virtualization and cloud security, representing Trend Micro on the Cloud Security Alliance and contributing regularly to the Cloud Security Blog by Trend Micro.

Software Architect

Third Brigade

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry

January 2008 – May 2009 (1 year 5 months)

Responsible for overall design and technical direction of Deep Security Manager. Oversaw the addition of Integrity Monitoring and Log Inspection to the existing DPI and Firewall functionality. Designed and implemented event tagging system. Assisted in supporting VMware vCenter integration an a new Virtual Appliance using VMware VMsafe-NET for agentless DPI and Firewall. Duties included research, specifications, design review, and code review.

Senior Software Developer/Team Lead

Third Brigade

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry

August 2004 – January 2008 (3 years 6 months)

Responsible for team leadership of the Java group in R&D. My duties included team-coordination, managing project milestones, and design and development across multiple products. During development I focused on the web-based user-interface (including the toolkit), the database layer and the cross-platform installer. The team was responsible for the development of an scalable enterprise-grade Security Manager and the central portal to deliver software and updates. My duties also included assistance with Common Criteria certification, patent development, and project management for the development of our OEM product for Trend Micro.

Software Developer

KeySpire Inc.

May 2003 – July 2004 (1 year 3 months)

Designed and developed multiple software applications. Responsibilities included product architecture, and implementation of the schema, middleware and user interface.
Projects:
- Entrust Certificate Manager - Central Web-based system for automated renewal of Web server certificates for IIS, Apache and Sun One
- JHS Management System - Web-based client management system
- ShopGuardian Franchise Management System 2.0 - A continuation of the product developed at Communication Genetics

Software Developer

Communication Genetics

January 2001 – May 2003 (2 years 5 months)

Developed ShopGuardian Franchise Management System and the Web-based DHTML platform it ran on (Netasis). Responsibilities included user interface development, creation of advanced reusable DHTML components for a Windows-like look and feel, and design and development of the ShopGuardian interface.
Projects:
- Netasis - A DHTML Web Desktop and GUI toolkit
- ShopGuardian Franchise Management Solution 1.0 - Scheduling and HR system for the quick service industry

Justin Foster's Honors and Awards

  • Most Valuable Leader - Innovation

    Trend Micro
    • November 2011

Justin Foster's Certifications

  • CISSP

    • ISC2
    • License 114715
    • October 2007

  • CCSK

    • CSA
    • License 446495193782
    • September 2010

Justin Foster's Patents

  • Method and system for real time classification of events in computer integrity system

    • United States Patent 8171547
    • Issued May 1, 2012
    Inventors: Justin Foster, Jeb Thorley

    Method and system using a designated known secure computer for real time classification of change events in a computer integrity system are disclosed. In the embodiment of the invention, the known secure computer is dedicated for providing permissible change events, which are compared with change events generated on client operational computers. An alert is raised when the change event at the client operational computer and the respective permissible change event provided by the known secure computer differ.

  • Method and system for version independent software release management

    • United States Patent 8117596
    • Issued February 14, 2012
    Inventors: Justin Foster, Jeb Thorley

    A method for assembling an update for a software release is described, comprising defining classes of software components, each class comprising one or more instances of the class, each instance having a unique identifier, each instance representing a software component, which has one or more version; for each version of a software component, assigning time stamps and indicators identifying status of the version; introducing a flexible coupling between versions of components and instances of classes by providing a pointer between a version of a component and a unique identifier of an instance of a class; selecting versions of software components from which pointers originate; for each instance of the class, to which the pointer points at, selecting one version of the software component based on the assigned indicators; and assembling the selected versions of software components into the update of the software release. A corresponding system is also provided.

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Justin Foster's Education

Loyalist College

Computer Technologist

1998 – 1999

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