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. He has testified before the Congress as an expert of this field.
Rodney Joffe has also been involved as a member of ICANN's SSAC since 2006 . He was also a member of ICANN's RSTEP between 2006-2008 and the NomCom, where he was appointed for three terms: 2005, 2006 and 2009.
Employment Experience
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 1974, for computer envelopes.[3]
His employment experience is:
- 1984-Present: Whitehat Inc., where he is Founder and Chairman of Direct Marketing Service Bureau;
- 1997-1999: GTE Internetworking/Genuity Inc., where he was Founder of Genuity, CTO of GTE Internetworking Business Services;
- 1999-2006: UltraDNS, where he was Founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer (CTO);
- 2006-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 responsible 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]