Dan Farmer Email & Phone Number

I've consulted probably ⅓ of my total career... it's off-and-on again, between full-time employ and when I'm interested in some thing or cause.Along the way wrote or coauthored the tools COPS, SATAN, Titan, & The Coroner's Toolkit; the book Forensic Discovery (Addison-Wesley), and various papers and stuff.

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Started and ran the software practice for the internal security group at Mckinsey.Among other things we provided software and benchmarking tools to assess an enterprise's cybersecurity processes and systems as well as providing C-level executives and boards of directors with a perspective on how to align their cybersecurity budgets with their most critical.

Seattle

• Ran security, operations, and all computer-related activities
• Convinced Providence Health & Services (also a joint venture partner) that our security was sufficient to move PHI data of >20M patients to the cloud
• Dealt with HIPAA, ran internal and external audits, used multiple cloud technologies, created an entirely new security framework to encapsulate and protect critical health dataNo records or bytes were lost in my tenure.

Seattle

I was awarded three research contracts in 2 years worth over $400k in the Cyber Fast Track program; my projects dealt with the detection and auditing of IPMI, analysis with Dtrace, and improving the user experience with security programs. Along the way I discovered a series of dangerous and far-reaching (e.g. all servers made today) protocol and.

San Francisco And Seattle

Sole/top enterprise architect for IT and InfoSec at the largest computer security company in the world. Planned, authored, and collaborated on a variety of enterprise-wide security strategies, including program for IdM, cloud, and remote access involving hundreds of millions of dollars, and was part of a gatekeeping team that reviewed all substantial.

Co-founder of an enterprise security software company that grew to 50 employees over a five year period. Helped raise over twenty million dollars from Sequoia, Bessemer Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, and Lehman Brothers (RIP!) Elemental ultimately collapsed after the CEO left for a larger company a couple of weeks prior to receiving what would have been.

Head security architect responsible for strategy and security posture for 2nd largest ISP in the world (back in the day!) I was tasked with ensuring internal security process, technology and architecture for company product and service offerings, and reviewed and assessed tens of millions of dollars of IT purchases and projects. Started my forensic.

Head security architect responsible for security, standards, and monitoring of Sun's internal network. I did research on and wrote large-scale network auditing and audit reduction tools. Architected and coordinated enterprise security strategy, policy and standards, and re-architected DMZ and Internet connectivity strategy.