Rodney Joffe
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Rodney Joffe is the Vice-President, Senior Technologist, and CTO of NeuStar.
He is an entrepreneur who holds multiple patents.[1]
Current Position
After the acquisition of UltraDNS in 2006, Rodney Joffe became the Senior Vice-President and Senior Technologist of Neustar, Inc. His main responsibilities include:
- Define and ensure guidance for technical direction of the Internet Infrastructure Services Group of Neustar.
- Heading the cyber-security initiatives of the company.
- Designing the architecture for DNS resolution
- Management of DDos mitigation initiatives [2]
Other Responsibilities
Rodney Joffe is often required to assist Federal Authorities regarding investigations and protection against cyber-crime and cyber-terrorits actions. In this domain of activity, he is considered an expert since he also testified before the Congress as being an expert.
Rodney Joffe is also involved as an active member of ICANN SSAC (Security and Stability Advisory Committee) since 2006 . He was also a member of ICANN RSTEP (Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel) between 2006-2008 and the ICANN NOMCOM (Nominating Committee) where he was appointed for three terms: 2005, 2006 and 2009.
Employment experience
Rodney Joffe has an impressive and remarkable anterior work experience which enabled him to become the valuable professional he is today.
Rodney Joffe started his career in Computing in the year 1973, as a programmer in the Direct Marketing industry. His first patent was registered in the computing field in the year 1974, for computer envelopes.[3]
His employment experience is:
- Since 1984 and until the present: Whitehat Inc where he is Founder and Chairman of Direct Marketing Service Bureau;
- Since 1997 until 1999: GTE Internetworking/Genuity Inc where he was Founder of Genuity, CTO of GTE Internetworking Business Services;
- Since 1999 and until 2006: UltraDNS where he was Founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer (CTO);
- Since 2006 until the present: Neustar Inc
Fouder of UltraDNS
It was 1999 when Rodney Joffe retired from GTE, returned to Phoenix, Arizona and decided to create the CenterGate Research Group which was the think-tank for the creation of UltraDNS as well as other community services.
Cybersecurity Expertise
Rodney Joffe regularly briefs the White House and House/Senate groups on the subject of cybersecurity, and has testified before congress as an expert.
Based on this, his experience as an cybersecurity expert brought him the following distinctions:
- White House Advisor, CyberSecurity Issues- since April 2010 until the present
- DHS, FBI- since March 2007 until the present
- Head of the Conficker Working Group- since March 2009 until the present
- Congressional Testimony May 1, 2009: got involved in cybersecurity issues within House Committee on Communications,
Technology, and the Internet
- Cyberstorm II - Planning and Exercise for DNS/Cybersecurity Scenario 2008
- Cyberstorm III- where he was the Lead on the Core Scenario Design Team 2010 [4]
Membership in organizations
Besides his involvement in ICANN SSAC, Rodney Joffe is also a member of the following engineering organizations:
- OARC ( Operations, Analysis and Research Center) since 2004 until present;
- NANOG (North American Network Operators' Group) since 1993 until present;[5]
- ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) since 1997 until present;
- IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) since 1998 until present.[6]
Professional achievements: Patents
Being a very talented, innovative solution developer and a visionary entrepreneur, Rodney Joffe is the holder of the following patents:
- Multi-tenant Unit issued on November 7 year 2000;
- Hopscotch issued on February 6 year 2001;
- Domain name resolution system and method - Issuance Pending;
- Suspect Traffic Redirection - Issuance Pending. [7]