José is a Distinguished Cloud Threat Researcher at Lacework. Previously he founded and lead the Threat Research team at Splunk (STRT). He started his professional career at Prolexic Technologies (now Akamai), fighting DDoS attacks from “anonymous” and “lulzsec” against Fortune 100 companies. As an engineering co-founder of Zenedge Inc. (acquired by Oracle Inc.), José helped build technologies to fight bots and web-application attacks. Although security information has been the focus of his career, José has found that his true passion is in solving problems and creating solutions.
José is the leader of the Threat Research team at Splunk. He started his professional career at Prolexic Technologies (now Akamai), fighting DDOS attacks from “anonymous” and “lulzsec” against Fortune 100 companies. As an engineering co-founder of Zenedge Inc. (acquired by Oracle Inc.), José helped build technologies to fight bots and web-application attacks. He has also built security operation centers and run a public threat-intelligence service, and runs/maintains over 8 open source security projects.
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