James Flom Bio

Roles and Responsibilities

Mr. Flom has been working in the computer industry for

the past 28 years and has spent the last 24 heavily

involved in computer and network security. Mr. Flom

has founded several security companies, the most

notable being SecTheory and Falling Rock Networks, as

well as co-founding ha.ckers.org and sla.ckers.org.

Previous Experience

As lead operations engineer of Pilot Network Services’

security department he researched network and

computer threats on a daily basis protecting some of

the largest companies and organizations in the world. He

designed and implemented what was believed to be at

the time, the largest network intrusion detection system

in the world, protecting over half a million endpoints.

Mr. Flom later joined Digital Island (acquired by Cable &

Wireless and merged with Exodus), where he created

new product offerings for the Security Operations

Center he was brought on to build. After the merger

with Exodus James joined the Cyber Attack Tiger Team

and assisted with the detection and recovery of several

global network security compromises. Mr. Flom later

became the director of consulting services for

Kliosystems before co-founding SecTheory and Falling

Rock Networks.

While working on ha.ckers.org Mr. Flom invented a

methodology to protect insecure applications without

modifying the code itself, work which was later assigned

a patent for what was known as “The Armored Stack”.

Additionally, Mr. Flom authored and co-authored may

network security tools, some in wide use today such as

slowloris and fierce.

Since 1998 Mr. Flom has participated in Blackhat ,

DefCon and BSides having presented several times at

the latter two as well as OWASP and LASSCON.

Professional Background

▪ Various roles, Hewlett Packard SMT lab, 4 years

▪ Head of network security operations at Pilot

Networks, 3 years ▪ Lead SoC engineer at Digital

Island/Cable & Wireless, 3 years ▪ Director of

consulting at KlioSystems, 2 years

▪ Founder SecTheory and Falling Rock Networks, 16

years.