Authors

Authors of the BreachBytes Blog include:

Ben Uphoff, Ph. D.
Ben was formerly a staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the Network Engineering group where he developed leading-edge software solutions for the network security operations at LANL. He developed the Net/FSE technology, which captures 120 million records per day at LANL. His research focuses on developing and applying intrusion detection and event correlation techniques for large, highly diverse networks. Ben received his Ph. D. in Computer Science from Iowa State University in August 2006. His dissertation work under Professor Johnny S. K. Wong involved correlation of high-volume IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems) alerts from disparate sensors on large enterprise networks.

More information on Ben can be found on his LinkedIn profile.

Andy Alsop
Andy is an experienced business leader and is on his 4th technology startup. Andy’s previous company, Panorama Point Corp., provided web-development services for clients such as Lucent Technologies, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and Cowboys & Indians Magazine. Andy led the sale of Panorama Point to a top-tier New Mexico search engine optimization and web development firm in 2005. Andy graduated with a B.A. in Business Administration from the School of Business & Economics at WVU.

More information on Andy can be found on his LinkedIn profile.