Greg Martin (entrepreneur)
Greg Martin (born in September 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[edit]
Martin 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[edit]
At 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[edit]
Martin serves as an independent board director of SOC Prime Inc, Advisory Board of Anomali, Inc. and Acalvio Technologies.[citation needed]
Patents[edit]
Martin 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[edit]
Martin 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.