Henry Stern

Senior Security Investigator, Cisco

Henry joined IronPort Systems in 2006 as one of the original engineers responsible for IronPort Anti-Spam (TM), the industry’s most accurate anti-spam filter, and invented IronPort’s Multidimensional Pattern Recognition (TM) technology for combatting image threats. Henry has been involved in the anti-spam community since 2003, serving as a committer for the Apache SpamAssassin project and a contributor to both the SURBL and URIBL spam domain name blocklists. Henry changed roles within Cisco in December 2010, joining Cisco’s CSIRT as an investigator where he is currently developing Cisco’s strategy against advanced persistent threat attacks. Henry is a frequent speaker at both industry and academic computer security conferences and regularly engages in public-private partnerships with law enforcement to help bring online criminals to justice.