Professional Profile

• Accomplished leader of high performing information security intelligence team. Managing a global team of high quality researchers providing cutting edge insight into security trends. Motivated a volunteer community to provide data and analysis.
• Skilled communicator who regularly addresses audiences ranging from entry-level analysts to C-level executives and communicates complex information security concepts clearly.
• Immersed in creating and marketing the industry leading GIAC Gold certification program, a complex project with high C-Level visibility for the last 8 years. Leveraged industry relationships to drive consensus. Proactively developed a strategy to better serve our clients by improving the quality of papers submitted as part of the certification. The quality of the certification program was crucial during the SANS Technology Institute’s accreditation process.
• Cutting edge information security researcher producing consistent highly regarded results and able to spot new threats and trends proactively, understand them and communicate the findings to a technical or management audience.
• Created a first of its kind global sensor network and over 12 years grew it into a primary source of threat intelligence relied on by major security vendors

Other Achievements

• Named one of the 50 most powerful people in the networking industry by Network World Magazine
• Top Security Podcast 2013
• Top Security Blog (2009,2010)
• Usenix Best Paper Award (2008)
• SC Magazine: Top 5 Influential Security Thinkers (2005)
• SC Magazine: Editors Choice Award for the Internet Storm Center (2006)
• Maintaining high traffic, dynamic web sites with high uptime. Close interaction with customers, designers and other developers
• Submitted several successful government research proposals .
• Developed web site to manage collaborative research project.
• Performed several integrations of sophisticated scientific equipment at customer sites. Each integration required detailed understanding of customer requirements and close interactions with the customer.

Selected Skills and Experience

Employment History

Education

Selected Publications

J. B. Ullrich, Windows XP: Surviving the first day. SANS Internet Storm Center

J. B. Ullrich, W. M. Gibson, M. V. Gubarev and C. A. MacDonald, Potential for Concentration of Synchrotron Beams with Capillary Optics, Nucl. Instr. & Meth. A, Vol. 347. 1994.

C.A. MacDonald, C.C. Abreu, S. Budkov, H. Chen, X. Fu, W. M. Gibson, Kardiawarman, A. Karnaukhov, V. Kovantsev, I. Yu. Ponomarev, B. K. Rath, J. B. Ullrich, M. Vartanian, Q. F. Xiao, Quantitative Measurements of the Performance of Capillary X-ray Optics, in R. B. Hoover and A. Walker, eds., Multilayer and Grazing Incidence X-ray/EUV Optics II, SPIE Proc. vol. 2011, 1993.

J. B. Ullrich, I. Yu. Ponomarev, M. V. Gubarev, N. Gao, Q.-F. Xiao, and W. M. Gibson, Development of Capillary (Kumakhov) Optics for X-Ray Diffraction Applications, invited paper, in R. B. Hoover and M. W. Tate, eds., X-Ray and UV Detectors, SPIE Proc. vol. 2278, 1994.

J. B. Ullrich, K. G. Huang, S. M. Owens, D. C. Aloisi, F. A. Hofmann, N. Gao, I. L. Klotzko, W. M. Gibson, Concentration of Synchrotron Beams by Means of Monolithic Polycapillary X-Ray Optics, Nucl. Instr. & Meth. A, Vol. 364, 1995.

B. K. Rath, D. C. Aloisi, D. H. Bilderback, N. Gao, W. M. Gibson, F. A. Hofmann, B. E. Homan, C. J. Jezewski, I. L. Klotzko, J. M. Mitchell, S. M. Owens, J. B. Ullrich, L. Wang, G. M. Wells, Q. F. Xiao and C. A. MacDonald, Effects of intense x-ray radiation on polycapillary fiber performance, in R. B. Hoover, M. B. Williams, eds., X-Ray and Ultraviolet Sensors and Applications, SPIE Proc. vol. 2519, 1995.

J. B. Ullrich, Q.-F. Xiao, Capillary X-Ray Optics: A Parallel Beam Optics for Powder Diffraction, poster presentation at the APS meeting in St. Louis (March 1996)

T. Jach, E. Steel, H. Chen, J. Ullrich, The Characterization of X-Ray Capillary Optics with a High-Resolution X-Ray Optical Bench, SPIE Proc., Vol. 2805, Denver (July 1996).

S. M. Owens, J. B. Ullrich, I. Yu. Ponomarev, D. C. Carter, R. C. Sisk, J. X. Ho, and W. M. Gibson, Protein Crystal Structure Measurements Using Polycapillary X-Ray Optics, SPIE Proc., Vol 2859, Denver (July 1996).

J. B. Ullrich, S. M. Owens, Q.-F. Xiao, I. Yu. Ponomarev, D. Carter, R. C. Sisk, Convergent Beam Macromolecular Crystallography Using Polycapillary X-Ray Optics, poster presentation at the 1996 IUCr meeting (Seattle)

S. M. Owens, J. B. Ullrich, I. Yu. Ponomarev, Q.-F. Xiao, D. Carter, R. C. Sisk, W. M. Gibson, Polycapillary X-Ray Optics for Macromolecular Crystallography, poster presentation at the 1996 IUCr meeting (Seattle)

J. B. Ullrich, Monolithic Capillary Optics: An Enabling Technology for Extraplanetary X-Ray Diffraction. JPL/CALTECH Diffraction Workshop

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