Jose Nazario, Ph.D.

Current

• Within the Office of the CTO at Arbor Networks

Past

• Contributor at OpenBSD
• Graduate Student at Case Western Reserve University

Education

• Case Western Reserve University
• Luther College

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Connections

296 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company
• My Website

Jose Nazario, Ph.D.’s Summary

Passionate, highly motivated information security professional with a wide variety of experiences and skills.
- Track record of research and innovation.
- Demonstrated capacity to quickly synthesize new material.
- Experience in both engineering and customer interactions.
- Adept at delivering solutions to address pressing customer problems.

Core Competencies: Broad knowledge of networking applications and protocols, intimate understanding of Internet-scale threats, able to rapidly prototype and demonstrate new ideas. Creative thinker, able to interact with clients very well and work to deliver products and solutions to meet their needs. Responsible for no less than six CVE entries.
- Languages: Proficient in several programming languages, focusing mainly on C and Python, and also JavaScript, XML and HTML, PHP, Tcl, SQL, and shell scripting.
- Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, UNIX/Linux, Cisco IOS and CatOS. Adept at developing within a distributed system environment.
- Networking: Deep skills in TCP/IP, network and server administration (UNIX, serving HTTP/S, SMTP, SSH, etc), many routing protocols (i.e. BGP), major network applications and protocols (i.e. SSH, SMTP, HTTP), office applications.
- Tools: Sniffers, IDS systems, firewalls, various security auditing applications. Good skills in reverse engineering: debuggers, disassemblers, code analysis tools.

Jose Nazario, Ph.D.’s Specialties:

Currently focused on computer networking and security, including prototyping, analysis, and innovation. Working with the world's biggest and most demanding networks and providers to deliver solutions and new products to meet their needs. Work with some of the world's best minds in the information security world in a variety of forums both within and outside of Arbor Networks.

Previously studied and earned a doctorate in biochemistry.

Jose Nazario, Ph.D.’s Experience

• Within the Office of the CTO

  Arbor Networks

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2002 — Present (6 years 5 months)

  Recruited to work in software testing, developed tools and software testing plans for Peakflow products. Tasked to perform security analysis for the Peakflow Blackhole project. Analyzed large-scale attacks and malware threats for our customers. Now part of ASERT research team performing threat analysis, development and prototyping, and service delivery.
  Key contributions:
  - Worked with others to develop prototypes of new products and services.
  - Developed dozens of behavioral policies for the ATF service.
  - Significant part of the Arbor Networks security marketing message (press, speaking).
  - Customer interaction and training.
  - Developed part of the worm detection algorithm used in Peakflow X (patent pending).
  - Represent Arbor Networks in the MITRE CME project, NSP-SEC community, and several other malware and phishing research communities.
  - Developed botnet tracking and malware analysis tools (dynamic, static analysis) to automate our analysis.

Jose Nazario, Ph.D.’s Education

• Case Western Reserve University

  Ph.D., Biochemistry, 1995 — 2002

  My Ph.D. Thesis is available: http://monkey.org/~jose/thesis/thesis.pdf Title:The 20S Proteasome from Thermoplasma acidophilum

• Luther College

  BA, Biology, August 1991 — May 1995

Additional Information

Jose Nazario, Ph.D.’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company
• My Website

Jose Nazario, Ph.D.’s Interests:

Fly fishing, cooking, travel, photography, cycling, malware analysis, spam analysis, Internet security.

Jose Nazario, Ph.D.’s Groups:

ACS, UCS, ACLU

• Forbes.com Entrepreneurs member
•    a2b3 - Ann Arbor Bi Bim Bop member
•    Virus Bulletin Conference Speakers member
•    Internet Security Operations Community member

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