Garth Bruen

Country:	USA
LinkedIn:	[Garth Bruen Garth Bruen]
Twitter:	@KnujOn

Garth Bruen is the Owner of Knujon. He is also a member at APWG and HTCIA. He is also a member at Infragard. In his project Knujon, he has done a lot of work to take down websites run by spammers.

Career History

Mr. Bruen was the At-Large Representative from North America at the ICANN 42. From 1998-2011, he was the Enterprise Content and Project Manager at the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency. He has worked in different industries including programming, policy development, private security and banking. In 2005, he provided 2 Month of Freelance Coding Assistance at the Department of Defense/US Navy. He was the Computer Operations Coordinator at Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency from 1998-2000. Prior to which, he was an IT Manager at David P. Ehrlich Company. He has also been an Intern to the Honorable John Lepper of Commonwealth of Massachusetts, House of Representatives in 1996. Mr. Bruen has been a Float Teller at Fleet Bank and Officer at Security Systems Incorporated.

Meetings and Conferences

Speaker at National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law/National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute in 2011. Panelist - E-Crimes and Malicious Use in the DNS at Internet Governance Forum USA in 2010. Presenter at CyberSecurity Expo University of Memphis in 2010. Presenter and Panelist at ICANN At-Large Sessions In Mexico city. Keynote Speaker atMIT Spam Conference 2009.

Education

He holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University, Masters in Public Administration from Suffolk University and a Software Engineering Certificate from Northeastern University.

Many of his articles can be read on CircleID

External Links

• Whois, DNSSEC and Domain Security: An Interview With Garth Bruen of Knujon
• Garth Bruen: NARALO Member@ Dakar Oct 30,2011