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SECURITYFOCUS JOBS - NEW OPPORTUNITY
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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Security Researcher
Location: San Jose, California, US
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 05/21/2005
Company Information:
Company was established in October 2002 and is VC funded. The company is lead
by top management with a proven track record for delivering world-class product
as well as leading their last two companies to successful IPO’s.
Funding:
The company has been through Series B round of funding for $10 million. This
funding should last throughout the remainder of 2005 and well into 2006,
considering their offshore development model. Of the financing raised thus far,
$15 million of the total of $20 million remains in the bank. Funding for the
next round is being considered, but is not an issue for their lead VC firm. The
lead VC have given their full endorsement for their next round of financing. In
addition, to this the executives are lining up additional VC as a backup and to
make sure they are not leveraging the equity of the company.
Product:
The company’s tag line is: “We are developing a revolutionary product
that will enable enterprises to deploy cost-effective and scalable security
that is pervasively embedded in the fabric of the enterprise.” They are
basically building an enterprise network security appliance. This is a network
security device that will be more sophisticated, faster with higher throughput
(wire speed). This is a $30 billion dollar market.
The current stage of the product is beyond an idea, but there is still adequate
time for the architect to take what exist and define the new direction.
Technology: They are using C++, Linux and off the shelf hardware. They have not
quite decided on the network processor, but are leaning towards Intel.
Their product would be very similar to a product marriage between Cisco and
NetScreen. This is not like the McAfee product that is more perimeter and
gateway. This addresses a lot of new challenges, cutting edge work integrated
enterprise security and switching. They will offer a family of products that
range from access to core, internal detection and vulnerability assessment to
protect from worm type viruses to internal and external intrusions. They
revenue will sell via multiple channels:
· Partner with Nortel, Alcatel, Juniper, etc
· Large service organizations like EDS and IBM Global Services
· Direct Sales
· OEM
Product launched is schedule for the end of spring next year.
Group:
This is part of the CTO Group which contains 2 Principal Scientist: 1 focused
on Event Correlation/Worm Detection and the other focused on Encryption and
Vulnerability, 3-4 Architects: Routing and High Availability Event Correlation
Architect, 1 - TBD.
This CTO group is supported by a larger security team that is being built here
in the Santa Clara Hqtr's. This group will be headed up by the Director of
Engineering who has high level design engineers that focus on 1) Intrusion
Detection and Prevention 2) Security Engineer focused on either Firewall or
Authentication 3) IDS Signature Research Engineer. The CTO's group is focused
on research and architecture. They work on a variety of network security areas
including: event correlation, worm containment, IPS/IDS, encryption,
application penetration as well as security network traffic anomaly detection,
etc.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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Position: Anomaly Detection Scientist
Position involves research and development in algorithms and parameter setting
to support a very high speed network security product. Employer supports
publication of research following appropriate intellectual property protection.
Required:
· PhD and research experience in statistical anomaly detection in
an information security context
· Hands-on experimentation
· Good knowledge of computer networks
· Proven ability to innovate new algorithms, and evaluate real
world performance of such algorithms
Plus:
· Knowledge of worm spread/worm containment
· Worm outbreaks
· OS Auditing
· Intrusion Detection Signatures
· Experience developing intrusion correlation algorithms
· Experience within a product company
CONTACT
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Hayley Rubin
Technical Recruiter
SearchTech
hayley@stecs.com
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