Biography

Todd Nelson is currently Vice President & Chief IP Counsel at Fortinet. Mr. Nelson's areas of focus at Fortinet covers a broad range of legal matters including strategic intellectual property development, IP litigation and licensing, and open source management, strategy and compliance. Prior to joining Fortinet, Mr. Nelson was an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, CA where he specialized in the representation of technology and emerging growth companies, with a focus on intellectual property matters. Mr. Nelson... [Read More]

Glen Kemp works in the United Kingdom as a part of the EMEA professional services team. He has worked for 15 years in networking and security. He worked extensively with many leading and (sometimes bleeding) edge "keep the bad guys out" technologies. He specializes in network access controls, but also can turn his hand to application delivery and most IP technologies. He also holds numerous technical accreditation and gets itchy if he is too far from a test center or serial cable. Glen recently discovered a passion for writing and is a prolific... [Read More]

Neo is a Team Lead in the RAP department at Fortinet Inc. His research interests include exploits, custom packers and Botnets. He has several articles published in Virus Bulletin Issues. [Read More]

Victoria Martin works in Ottawa as part of the FortiOS technical documentation team. She has a Bachelor's degree from Mount Allison University, as well as a graduate certificate in technical writing from Algonquin College. She started at Fortinet straight out of school and has been enjoying every minute of her new career. Victoria has had a lifelong love affair with the English language and cannot remember a time when she wasn't writing, be it short stories or blog posts or attempts at a novel. When she is not writing, she can usually be found... [Read More]

John Grady is a Research Manager with IDC's Security Products group. In this role, Mr. Grady conducts primary research on the Network Security market in order to develop accurate forecasts and insightful analysis for clients. His main areas of focus include Firewall, VPN, Intrusion Detection and Prevention and Unified Threat Management technologies. Additionally, Mr. Grady is responsible for the accurate and timely delivery of IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, which provides clients with valuable geographic, product line and... [Read More]

Director, Corporate Communications McKie brings over 20 years networking and security technology experience to Fortinet. He writes about network security market trends and topics involving regulatory compliance and cyber security legislation. Although McKie holds a Juris Doctor in Law, he is not an attorney; he simply prefers to be a techno-junkie and security evangelist. [Read More]

Danny Choi is an Antivirus Analyst at Fortinet and a contributor to VB100 certification test. He holds a BASc degree in Electronics Engineering at Simon Fraser University and has worked at Nokia for his co-op as a RF Performance Test Engineer. He has been in leadership roles for several engineering projects and been a relentless problem solver who enjoys every challenge through his academic career. He is now up for challenging the malware out there and willing to break down the codes for pursuing a better security solution. He can be also seen at... [Read More]

Axelle is a Senior Mobile Malware Analyst Researcher with Fortinet. She hunts malware for mobile phones and try to understand how they work. . [Read More]

CCIE#19065, Director, AV Engine Development. Leader of generic signature team and malware research team. [Read More]

Ruchna Nigam is a security researcher at FortiGuard Labs and works with mobile and PC malware. She is also interested in aspects of security like encryption schemes and biometrics and is getting used to referring to herself in third person. [Read More]