Matasano Management Team

Dave Goldsmith (President)

Co-author of the first published i386 stack overflow, David Goldsmith is a respected consultant, trainer, and researcher with over eleven years of experience. David co-founded @stake, managed its critical NYC office, and led Symantec Security Academy. David co-invented firewalking, which reverse-engineers firewall rules from remote firewalls and authored security tools for ISS and Network Associates.

Jeremy Rauch

For over 10 years Jeremy Rauch has been at the forefront of information security. An original member of the ISS X-Force and a co-founder of SecurityFocus, Jeremy is the discoverer of numerous security vulnerabilities in widely-deployed commercial products. Jeremy is also a former principal engineer for optical switching at Tellium.

Thomas Ptacek

Thomas Ptacek brings over 10 years of product development and security research experience to Matasano. Thomas has owned technical operations at Chicago’s most popular ISP, authored Insertion, Evasion, and Denial of Service, a landmark paper which broke every shipping intrusion detection product on the market, and at Arbor Networks led the development of a security product deployed on the backbone of virtually every tier-1 ISP worldwide.

Who We Are

Since 1994, Matasano researchers have had founding roles in the first security research labs, discovered new classes of vulnerabilities, secured operating systems, and shipped large software projects. We’ve been behind some of the first breaks in SAN technology, virtualization, and financial protocols. Our work has been featured in Network World, eWeek, Forbes, Macworld, Wired, and the Washington Post, and at conferences ranging from Black Hat to Gartner.