Richard Stiennon is a vice president of Threat Research for Webroot
software. He is responsible for Webroot's research task forces to root
out and define the next level of malicious software and attacks. His
speaking experience includes events around the world including,
Istanbul, Europe, Tel Aviv, and South America. He maintains the
popular security blog www.threatchaos.com
Before joining Webroot Mr. Stiennon was VP Research at Gartner Inc.
where he covered security topics including firewalls, intrusion
detection, intrusion prevention, security consulting and managed
security services for the Security and Privacy group. He is a holder
of Gartner's Thought Leadership award for 2003 and was named "One of
the 50 most powerful people in Networking" by NetworkWorld Magazine.
His speaking engagements have included conferences and meetings
throughout North and South America, Hawaii, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Istanbul,
Milan, Munich, Hannover, Madrid, London, and Cannes. He writes
regularly for various online publications as well as prolifically
posting to the security blog www.threatchaos.com
Mr. Stiennon has more than 20 years of experience in industry. Prior
to joining Gartner, he was with a dot-com that he headed up, which
provided back-end, gift-certificate generation and fulfillment for
major shopping centers. Before that, he was a manager in
PricewaterhouseCooper's Technical Risk Services group. At PwC Mr.
Stiennon led security assessment engagements at major financial
institutions, computer manufacturers, railroads and utilities. He
wrote industry best practices for Internet and firewall security. He
also was part of a small team that concentrated on PKI consulting. Mr.
Stiennon joined PwC from Netrex, a managed security provider acquired
by ISS. There, he was director of business development and was
instrumental in bringing Checkpoint software into the IPsec standards
for VPN. He started his networking career when he formed one of the
first ISPs in Michigan, which was focused on business clients.
Mr. Stiennon received a bachelor of science degree in aerospace
engineering from the University of Michigan.
