Russell Holdings is a unique privately owned company that grows businesses through mentoring, partnership, sweat equity, and at times, strategic investment. We partner with a variety of companies across a broad range of industries looking for recession resistant opportunities in uncorrelated markets, identifying their strengths and potentials for success. Areas of experience in Cyber Security include but are not limited to: Cyber Threat Intelligence, Risk Monitoring, Passive DNS, Domain Intelligence, Cybercrime, Cyber Espionage, Advanced Persistent Threats, Malware, Internet Architecture, Traceback and Attribution, Dark Web. We love to innovate and solve problems across a broad spectrum of industries.Motto:Think Different. Be Different.https://russellholdings.com

Binarly is a cutting edge company that protects devices from emerging firmware and hardware threats. They provide an advanced analytics platform with proactive and reactive solutions for Security Operations Centers and Incident Response teams to enhance visibility into their enterprise device infrastructure. Binarly is uniquely positioned to address the firmware supply chain security issues like no other company.

PolySwarm is the first decentralized marketplace where security experts build anti-malware engines that compete to protect you.Raised $26M in funding at launch. Think Bitcoin, but instead of mining, a global community of anti-malware experts compete to best detect today’s threats.https://polyswarm.io

Resecurity, a California-based cybersecurity company, focused on next-generation endpoint protection and intelligence-driven cybersecurity solutions. Resecurity combines robust protection stack to identify security anomalies with investigation and remediation capabilities. Upcoming flagship products are EPP (Endpoint Protection Platform), Risk (SaaS for Digital Risk Monitoring) and Context (Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform).

MeasuredRisk enables leaders to see and anticipate digital risk. Patent pending software uses AI to determine the potential for attack, and the conditions which are driving that potential, in real-time. The team is comprised of serial entrepreneurs, educators, ethical hackers and business leaders all focused on risk. MeasuredRisk aims to remove the noise, and provide decision support for leaders steeped in responsibility, with clarity and precision.

Served as Co-Founder, Fellow, and Chief Scientist of Team Cymru, an intelligence company whose technology has scaled to helping millions of users, many Tier 1 ISPs, NSPs, and governments in the fight against cyber crime world-wide. Our Mission: Saving and Improving Human Lives. Spent over 12 years deeply entrenched in the bowels of the Internet down to its base protocols and those that leverage it for good and for bad. The Who and the Why were subjects of deep ongoing investigation and research.Succeeded in expansive miscreant attribution and subversion.Stephen conceived and developed many of the technologies that help set Team Cymru apart and be recognized as the top most influential leaders in the world of Internet Security. Developed cutting edge technologies done by no one else in the world to save and improve human lives - literally. Pioneered many innovative aspects of Cyber Security within the company, many techniques which remain in use to this day. Some of that time spent in: Extensive Data Mining, BGP, SQL, TCP/IP, Netflow, Advanced Persistent Treats, Underground Economy, Malware Homology, Miscreant Attribution, Critical Infrastructure Support, Triangulation, Cyberwarfare, etc. Notable partnerships: Interpol, FBI, USSS, The US Treasury, US Air Force, UK GCHQ, DHS, Polish Police, NHTCU, IMF, AUS-CERT, CNCERT, RU-CERT, CERT/CC, JPCERT, US-CERT, REN-ISAC, thousands of others and too many to list.

"Cyber defenders, ever vigilant, ever responsive." -Marjorie Gilbert, 2003 The nsp-security forum is a volunteer international incident response group, which coordinates the interaction between ISPs, NSPs, and critical infrastructure in near real-time and tracks exploits and compromised systems as well as mitigates the effects of those exploits on ISP networks. The list has helped mitigate countless attacks, infections, and botnets.

Research and Education Network (REN‐ISAC) is an integral part of higher education's strategy to improve network security through information collection, analysis, dissemination, early warning, and response. REN‐ISAC services and products are specifically designed to support the unique environment and needs of organizations connected to served higher education and research networks, and supports efforts to protect the national cyber infrastructure by participating in the formal U.S. ISAC structure.

Part of a tight-knit elite think tank hired on by Cisco Systems as a private research branch segregated from the rest of the business seeking to develop new and innovative ideas and technologies pertaining to the Internet, Complex Inter Networking, Data Analysis, and of course people - the purveyors of doom.Translation: get paid to work from home and do cool stuff with 100% autonomy.

Was chosen out of nearly 1000 applicants to help build out Vanco US and carry on the networking and security practice of a UK based powerhouse in the IT and networking industry.

Formerly FLAG Telecom.

Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc was Acquired by Level 3 Communications which was acquired by CenturyLink

Performed consulting for GTP in network design and security. Worked closely with companies such as Global Crossing in Arizona and Flag Telecom in the UK implementing high end firewall technologies, network strategy and design with Juniper, and server consulting.

Short stint at a startup in downtown Chicago who tried to get into the Colo hosting business.Was spared from all the layoffs until the company finally closed up for good.

Served various positions including:Tier 4 Network Design & ArchitectureTier 3 Network EngineerLevel 2 Network EngineerLogical Build OperatorPioneered the datacenter server hosting business before it ever was mainstream. Notables: Hosted Victoria's Secret, Solomon Smith Barney, and the FBI.gov website among hundreds of others.