Danny McPherson — Senior VP & Chief Security Officer at VERISIGN

Mr. Danny McPherson serves as the Chief Security Officer and Senior Vice President of VeriSign, Inc. Mr. McPherson is responsible for all aspects of security at Verisign, which includes corporate strategy, infrastructure evolution and product direction. Additionally, he represents Verisign in key forums focused on critical infrastructure, network evolution, intelligence and availability. With over 20 years of experience in the Internet network operations, security and telecommunications industries, he has tremendous technical leadership and operational expertise. Prior to joining Verisign, he served as the Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President at Arbor Networks where he helped lead the Arbor's overall strategy and product architecture. He has also held technical leadership positions in architecture, engineering and operations with Amber Networks, Qwest Communications, Genuity, MCI Communications and the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He has actively participated in Internet operations and standardization since the early 1990s and has served multiple terms on the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG), and has chaired an array of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and other working groups and the IETF's Nominations Committee. He also serves on the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) and the FCC's Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC), and regularly speaks at network operations and security forums. Additionally, he is active in the network and security operations and research communities and has authored several books, an array of Internet protocol standards, network and security research papers and other publications related to Internet and critical infrastructure, routing and networking protocols, cyber security, Internet governance, Internet identifiers and network operations.