Verisign Labs: People

Biography
As Verisign’s chief technology officer, Dr. Burt Kaliski is responsible for the company’s long-term technology vision. He is the leader of Verisign Labs, which focuses on applied research, university collaboration, industry thought leadership, and intellectual property strategy. He also facilitates the technical community within Verisign. Dr. Kaliski reports to Jim Bidzos as a member of Verisign’s executive leadership team, where he works closely with Mark Gathje to turn the vision into near-term value for the company’s business units and customers.

Prior to joining Verisign in 2011, Dr. Kaliski served as the founding director of the EMC Innovation Network, the global collaboration among EMC’s research and advanced technology groups and its university partners. He joined EMC from RSA Security, where he served as vice president of research and chief scientist. Dr. Kaliski started his career at RSA in 1989, where as the founding scientist of RSA Laboratories, his contributions included the development of the Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS), now widely deployed for internet security.

Dr. Kaliski has held appointments as a guest professor at Wuhan University's College of Computer Science, and as a guest professor and member of the international advisory board of Peking University's School of Software and Microelectronics. He has also taught at Stanford University and Rochester Institute of Technology.

He is also a trustee emeritus of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society and Tau Beta Pi.

Dr. Kaliski received his bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his research focused on cryptography.

• Burt Kaliski talks about Verisign Labs

Biography
Danny McPherson is Chief Security Officer for Verisign where he is responsible for strategic direction, research and innovation in infrastructure, and information security. He advises on corporate strategy, infrastructure evolution and product direction and represents Verisign in key forums focused on critical infrastructure, network evolution, intelligence and availability. With nearly 20 years of experience in the Internet network operations, security, and telecommunications industries, he brings tremendous technical leadership to the company.

Prior to joining Verisign, Danny was Vice President and Chief Security Officer at Arbor Networks where he helped lead the company's overall strategy and product architecture. He also previously held technical leadership positions in network architecture, engineering, and operations with Amber Networks, Qwest Communications, Genuity, MCI Communications, and the U.S. Army Signal Corp.

Danny has been an active participant in Internet standardization since 1996 and is considered one of the top Internet infrastructure and security industry experts. Currently he is a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG), and co-chairs the IETF's L3VPN WG. He also serves on the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Council (SSAC) and the FCC's Network Reliability and Interoperability Council (NRIC).

Danny is very active in the network and security operations and research communities, and has authored several books, Internet protocol standards, network and security research papers, and other publications related to critical infrastructure, routing protocols, network security, Internet addressing, and network operations.

Biography
Matt Larson, Vice President of DNS Research at Verisign, is a specialist in DNS protocol and operational issues. He is an active participant in the wider DNS community as a contributor to the DNS engineering and operations working groups in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF); as chairman of the board of the DNS Operations, Analysis and Research Center; as vice-chair of ICANN's Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC); and as a member of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC).

He co-authored DNS on Windows Server 2003, DNS on Windows 2000 and DNS on Windows NT for the O'Reilly & Associates Nutshell Handbooks series with Cricket Liu.

Prior to joining Verisign in June 2000, Matt founded Acme Byte & Wire, a DNS consulting and training company with customers in more than 10% of the Fortune 100. Matt also ran hp.com, one of the largest corporate domains in the world, and later worked in HP's professional services organization.

Education
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, and Bachelor of Music, Church Music/Organ Performance, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Biography
John Bosco is a Distinguished Engineer at Verisign Labs where we he works on infrastructure computing projects. His research interests include tool chains and techniques to better utilize multicore gear, GPU's, high performance cluster computing applications, performance analysis, and distributed systems. John joined Verisign in 2000 to work on various infrastructure related projects before transitioning to Verisign Labs in 2009.

Education
Bachelor of Science, Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Biography
As principal engineer for advanced computing, Ken Ryan explores the application of graphics processing units (GPUs) to client/server architectures. His research interests include high performance computing and cryptography. Ken joined Verisign in February 2002 as a senior storage engineer where his primary responsibility was to architect storage solutions for internal customers and evaluate storage hardware and software. He engineered a prototype to extend synchronous remote replication for the Registry OLTP system to a distance of 200 miles. He also evaluated the IBRIX parallel file system and its potential application for a content delivery system.

Prior to Verisign, Ken worked as a systems engineer at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), a UNIX architect at Bell Atlantic, and a technical manager at Sun Microsystems in the Professional Services Consulting division. He is an accomplished IT professional with 20 years of experience architecting IT solutions for customers.

Education
Bachelor of Science, Optics, University of Rochester, New York

Biography
Duane is Principal Engineer, DNS Research, with a focus on DNSSEC projects. He is responsible for collecting and analyzing large amounts of data during the initial rollout of the signed root zone. He is working on Verisign’s DNSSEC interoperability lab and other DNSSEC tools for both internal and public use. He is also managing collaborative university research projects.

Prior to joining Verisign, Duane was the Director of the DNS Operations Analysis Research Center (DNS-OARC). Duane enjoys attending various technical conferences and is a member of the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) Steering Committee.

Education
Bachelor of Science. Physics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Master of Science, Telecommunications, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Biography
Scott Hollenbeck is the Director of Applied Research for Verisign. In this capacity, he manages the company's efforts to explore strategic technology opportunities through a combination of internal and university-funded research activities. Mr. Hollenbeck is the author of the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP), an Internet protocol for the registration and management of Internet infrastructure data including domain names. Mr. Hollenbeck is also a co-author of the Verisign Registry-Registrar Protocol (RRP), a pre-cursor of EPP developed for use in the Verisign Shared Registration System. He has been a contributor to several industry efforts related to domain names and Internet security, including internationalized domain names, ENUM, public key cryptography, S/MIME, the Extensible Markup Language (XML), and the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. He recently served as a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force, where he was the responsible area director for several working groups developing application protocol standards. Prior to his employment at Verisign, Mr. Hollenbeck held management and engineering positions with Xerox Corporation. He is a former chairman of the Xerox desktop software interoperability test working group, a cross-corporate group of engineers and managers responsible for interoperability testing of all Xerox network and desktop software products. Mr. Hollenbeck is also a former officer of the United States Air Force.

Education
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania
Master of Science, Computer Science, George Mason University, Virginia

Biography
Paul focuses on the management and development of Verisign Labs’ initiatives including innovation and intellectual property programs and strategies, working with technology and business leaders from across the company to maximize the potential value of these critical assets. He also leads the development of Verisign’s key technical community including conferences designed specifically for technologists, including the Technology Leaders’ Forum, attended by the top-tier technology leadership team, and the Verisign Technology Symposium which is attended by more than 100 of the company’s leading technologists.

Before assuming his current role, Paul led the development of Verisign’s patent portfolio strategy, patent pipeline and innovation mechanism, aligning those initiatives with our business and developing an innovative approach to managing and prioritizing strategic initiatives.

Prior to joining Verisign, Paul led Nextel’s Enterprise IT Program Management Office and served as the organization’s control point throughout the Sprint-Nextel merger. He also managed a key component of the Boost Mobile product introduction.

Education
Bachelor of Science, Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Master of Information Systems, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Biography
John has more than 30 years of experience working at small and large companies as well as startups. He has worked in the fields of high performance servers, instruction scheduling, multimedia messaging and compiler design. Lately, he has applied the same tools to different problems at Verisign, such as building a visual debugger for database stored procedures, automatic code generation of tests or scheduling scarce or constrained resources.

A current research interest uses Hadoop to analyze and automatically detect Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. He is the author of 12 patents (seven granted).

Past
I had the opportunity to work on Java in the early days when it was still interpreted. I designed and wrote the first JIT instruction scheduler in the world. (US patent no 6139199).

Education
Master of Business Administration - San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Graduate course work in Computer Science - California State University Chico
Bachelors degree in Computer Science - Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA

Biography
Eric Osterweil is a Senior Research Engineer on the Verisign Labs team. He received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science department of UCLA in 2010. He did his thesis work in the Internet Research Lab (IRL) where his advisors were Professor Lixia Zhang and Professor Dan Massey, and his dissertation topic was a new substrate for Internet-scale security systems called "Measurable Security."

Eric is an active member of the IETF (link to: http://www.ietf.org/)and other research communities. In the IETF he participates in the evolution of protocols and systems such as DNS and DNSSEC. As part of his participation in the community, Eric has authored several utilities that have helped facilitate and evolve the DNSSEC deployment (including SecSpider, dnsfunnel, dnskey-grab, and Vantages). Much of Eric's operational interactions have lead to publications of his research results in various ACM and IEEE venues.

As an undergraduate, Eric completed the requirements for bachelor degrees in both Computer Science and Physics from The Johns Hopkins University. After graduating, he worked at various companies and in various professional roles for about eight years.

Education
Ph. D., Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
B.A., Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
B.A., Physics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Biography
As Senior Engineer for advanced computing research, Dow Summers is currently exploring ways for Verisign to take advantage of fast path packet processing techniques, improve small packet networking performance of virtualized servers and investigate hardware-based deep packet inspection. Dow joined Verisign in 1999 and was initially focused on transitioning our DNS services to 64 bit computing. Among other significant contributions, Dow also pioneered our passive real time monitoring system for DNS and our other high availability services.

Prior to Verisign, Dow worked as a systems engineer at Motorola's Iridium Satellite Control center, and a system administrator at Kansas State University. He is an accomplished IT professional with 20 years of experience architecting IT solutions for customers.

Biography
Sami Saleh is the Lab Manager for Verisign Labs. Sami administers all of the computing assets utilized by the Verisign Labs research team. He also manages Verisign Labs’ DNSSEC Interoperability Lab located in our Dulles, VA office and supports IT vendors that participate in the interoperability test program for Verisign’s upcoming DNSSEC deployment for .com and .net. In addition, he developed the environment for DNSSEC testing, which includes 8000 DNSSEC test cases.

Prior to joining Verisign Labs in 2009, Sami worked as a contractor for a commercial vendor in the D.C. area, supporting large Qmail instances. He has also supported large-scale DOD initiatives and applications including .gov and GCSS-Army. Sami supplements his IT skills by teaching freshman and sophomore IT classes at a local community college in Northern Virginia.

Education
Master of Science, Information Technology, Strayer University, Washington, DC
Bachelor of Science, Information Systems Management, University of Maryland University College

Biography
As the patent portfolio manager, Stuart Morgan works with product and technical groups to identify ideas within business and supporting technology platforms that are patentable. Stuart helps ensure that such ideas are documented and evaluated to enable patent filing by the patents legal team. In addition, Stuart manages and supports the idea and patent repository software application for the core business.

Stuart has 20 years experience in the telecommunication, Internet, and software industry. Most recently, Stuart managed key elements of the Sprint WiMax broadband wireless service launch, and Intel’s partnerships with other WiMax service providers within the Verified WiMax Provider program. Prior to this, Stuart managed a range of enterprise software implementations at a number of wireless and wire-line telecom providers in North America and Europe.

Education
Master of Business Administration, University of Wales, UK
Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, University of Bath, UK