SecTheory Executive Management
Robert Hansen (CEO, Founder): Mr. Hansen (CISSP) has worked for Digital Island, Exodus Communications and Cable & Wireless in varying roles from Sr. Security Architect and eventually product managing many of the managed security services product lines. He also worked at eBay as a Sr. Global Product Manager of Trust and Safety, focusing on anti-phishing, anti-DHTML malware and anti-virus strategies. Later he worked as a director of product management for Realtor.com. Robert sits on the advisory board for the Intrepidus Group, and Lockify and currently contributes to the security strategy of several startup companies.
Mr. Hansen wrote Detecting Malice authors content on O'Reilly and co-authored "XSS Exploits" by Syngress publishing. He also has briefed the DoD at the Pentagon and speaks at SourceBoston, Secure360, GFIRST/US-CERT, CSI, Toorcon, APWG, ISSA, TRISC, World OWASP/WASC conferences, SANS, Microsoft's Bluehat, Blackhat, DefCon, SecTor, BSides, Networld+Interop, and has been the keynote speaker at the New York Cyber Security Conference, NITES and OWASP Appsec Asia. Mr. Hansen is a member of Infragard, WASC, IACSP, APWG, contributed to the OWASP 2.0 guide and is on the Content Review Board for Blackhat.
James Flom (COO, Co-Founder): Mr. Flom has been working in the computer industry for the past sixteen years and has spent the last twelve heavily involved in computer and network security. As lead operations engineer of Pilot Network Services' security department he researched network and computer threats on a daily basis protecting some of the largest companies and organizations in the world. He designed and implemented what was believed to be at the time, the largest network intrusion detection system in the world, protecting over half a million computers.
Mr. Flom later joined Digital Island (acquired by Cable & Wireless and merged with Exodus), where he created new product offerings for the Security Operations Center he was brought on to build. After the merger with Exodus James joined the Cyber Attack Tiger Team and assisted with the detection and recovery of several global network security compromises. Mr. Flom later became the director of consulting services for Kliosystems before co-founding SecTheory. He is a member of IACSP.