Greg Martin (born 1981 in Dallas, Texas) is a cybersecurity expert and entrepreneur. Martin was the founder of cyber-security company Anomali and the founder of the cyber security company JASK (Acquired by Sumo Logic 2019). Martin is credited with inventing the first Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP),[1] and is the creator of the popular open source Honeypot project “Modern Honey Network”.[2]
Early life and education
editMartin grew up in working-class Waxahachie, Texas.
Martin, a self proclaimed autodidact, taught himself taught himself to write code on his family's first personal computer, an IBM 8086 clone. He was a teenage computer hacker, pulling pranks like creating a program to flood the local Domino's Pizza with bogus calls and infiltrating his high school's servers, programming the computers to shut off simultaneously.[3]
Career
editAt age 16, while still in high school, Martin ran the local dial-up Internet service provider. After graduating high school, he moved to Dallas, Texas, to work as a network engineer.
In his mid-twenties, he taught a computer security course for NASA. During this time he also acted as a cyber-security advisor for the U.S. Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), helping the organizations track and shut down criminal networks.[4]
In 2009, Martin became a cyber-security consultant for leading SIEM company ArcSight (which was later acquired by Hewlett-Packard).
In 2012, he left HP (Arcsight) and founded cloud security company ThreatStream Inc. (now known as Anomali),[5] in Redwood City, California.
In 2015, Martin launched cloud security and artificial intelligence company JASK[6] in San Francisco.
Martin currently resides in Austin, TX with his family and is the CEO of Ghost Security Inc.
Boards and honors
editMartin serves as an independent board director of SOC Prime Inc, Advisory Board of Anomali, Inc. and Acalvio Technologies.[citation needed]
Patents
editMartin was awarded two United States patents in computer and network security:
- United States Patent 10867034 "Method for detecting a cyber attack"
- United States Patent 10855715 "Method for predicting security risks of assets on a computer network"
Commentary and contributions
editMartin serves as a cybersecurity industry resource, and is often quoted in industry news stories on a variety of topics, from high-profile data breaches[7] to government cybersecurity.[8]
References
edit- ^ Crichton, Danny (March 24, 2018). "JASK and the future of autonomous cybersecurity". TechCrunch.
- ^ Jackson Higgins, Kelly (June 19, 2014). "Open-Source Tool Aimed At Propelling Honeypots Into the Mainstream". Dark Reading.
- ^ Schuppe, Jon (December 30, 2014). "'Born at the Right Time': How Kid Hackers Became Cyberwarriors". NBC News.
- ^ Lachance Shandrow, Kim (March 24, 2014). "This Startup Wants You to Know When a Cyberattack Is Coming". Entrepreneur.
- ^ Kerner, Sean Michael (February 29, 2016). "ThreatStream Renames and Refocuses Itself as Anomali". eWeek.
- ^ Magistretti, Bérénice (June 27, 2017). "Ex-FBI advisor raises $12 million for cybersecurity startup JASK". VentureBeat.
- ^ Bradley, Tony (February 20, 2018). "Stalled Equifax Breach Investigation Could Provide Valuable Insight". Forbes.
- ^ Tesler, Rachel (August 21, 2019). "California's Cybersecurity task force leads charge to defeat hackers". Fox Business.