Tim April

Organization:	Akamai
Affiliation:	SSAC
Region:	North America
Country:	USA
Email:	tim [at] tapril.net

Tim April works for Akamai Technologies as a Principal Architect in the Information Security department. He oversees Akamai's DNS services and infrastructure security.

ICANN and Internet Governance Participation

He is a member of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee and RSSAC Caucus.

Education

April has a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering and a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire.

Publications

• The DNS in IoT: Opportunities, Risks, and Challenges. IEEE Internet Computing 24.4 (2020): 23-32.
• Understanding the Mirai Botnet. In USENIX Security Symposium. 2017.
• The WireX Botnet: An Example of Cross-Organizational Cooperation. Akamai Blog. August 28, 2017.

Security and Stability Advisory Committee. Advises the ICANN community and Board on matters relating to the security and integrity of the Internet's naming and address allocation systems (ICANN Bylaws).

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers