Jon Oberheide is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur in the field of cybersecurity. He is the founder of Duo Security, a security firm that was later purchased by Cisco. He also sits on the board of directors for numerous companies.[1]
Jon Oberheide | |
|---|---|
| Education | PhD |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Occupation(s) | Computer scientist, Entrepreneur |
| Website | jon |
Biography
editOberheide grew up in Troy, Michigan and began fixing people's computers when he was only in middle school.[2] While attending high school, Oberheide founded a web hosting business with his friends, and would scrape the internet for email addresses in order to find potential clients. He would also hack networks as a challenge to see if they were secured. At the age of 17, he hacked into a honeypot set up by Dug Song, a security expert and future Duo Security co-founder who set up the honeypot to lure talented hackers.[1]
Oberheide attended the University of Michigan where he earned a PhD in CSE. During his studies, he worked with Farnam Jahanian at the University[3] where he discovered multiple flaws in Android devices.[4] He is also credited with proposing the first Cloud-based antivirus design in 2008.[5] In 2010, Oberheide (along with Song) founded Duo Security, a security firm that was purchased by Cisco in 2018 for $2.3 billion.[6] Oberheide served as the company's CTO.[7] During his career, he has obtained more than 70 patents related to cybersecurity.[8][9]
Oberheide sits on the board of several startups and non-profit organizations, including DNSFilter,[citation needed] runZero, Push Security, and The Henry Ford.[10]
References
edit- ^ a b Castillo, Michelle (19 April 2017). "How a high schooler hacked into a security company and ended up with a job". CNBC.
- ^ "Jon Oberheide, 35". Crain's Detroit Business.
- ^ "CSE Alum Jon Oberheide Named One of Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Technology". University of Michigan.
- ^ Marion, Nancy E (2020). Cybercrime - An Encyclopedia of Digital Crime. ABC CLIO. ISBN 9781440857355.
- ^ "CloudAV: N-Version Antivirus in the Network Cloud". usenix.org. Archived from the original on August 26, 2014.
- ^ Burns, Matt. "Cisco is buying Duo Security for $2.35B in cash". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
- ^ Mimoso, Mike. "Jon Oberheide on Perimeter Security". Threat Post.
- ^ "Patents". Jon Oberheide.
- ^ "Jon Oberheide". Google Patents.
- ^ "New Members join The Henry Ford Board of Trustees". The Henry Ford.