Stephen Newman
CTO, Damballa
Stephen Newman brings over 17 years of technology innovation and leadership to Damballa. He has designed products and product strategies for leading, innovative technologies throughout his career. Since joining Damballa in 2009, his team has successfully built upon the company's 16 patented/patent-pending innovations to create advanced threat detection solutions that harness big data science. Specific contributions include the creation of contextual-based detection engines; the Case Analyzer, an intelligence platform that makes automatic decisions about the status of infected devices; and Risk Profilers, which prioritize compromised assets so incident responders can take immediate action on incidents. Today, Damballa's enterprise and ISP solutions are the industry's most mature and sophisticated, protecting more than half a billion devices globally.
Prior to joining Damballa, Stephen developed a range of security products for companies like EarthLink, MegaPath, Secure Computing, and McAfee. Stephen is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and unique user groups, including the Federal Reserve Bank and the US Embassy in Canada. His passion is to jointly whiteboard with prospects and customers to attack challenges and find solutions. Stephen holds a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.