Robert Mooney

Robert is an application and security software architect with a wide range of experience in Internet security, enterprise software development, and application security auditing. Robert began his career maintaining the operational aspects of an ISP, growing an infrastructure supporting a small number of individual users to thousands of individual and corporation clients. He was a member of the Internet Security Systems X-Force (later acquired by IBM), where he contributed heavily to Internet Scanner, RealSecure IDS, and System Scanner; and was involved in the creation and development of the company’s enterprise security monitor. While at ISS, he also developed the first kernel-based stack-fingerprint masquerading module for BSD, and later worked directly with the founder and lead engineers on experimental security software. Robert was an early contributor at SPI Dynamics, Inc. (later acquired by HP), and later held a position at Microsoft as a software design engineer on the Forefront Security product suite.