RUSSELL L. BRAND, Research Fellow

Russell Brand is an internationally recognized expert in the field of computer security.

Russell now serves as a research fellow at Procinct Security. Previously, he was the founder, CEO and Senior Scientist of Responsible Solutions Limited (RSL), a Silicon Valley-based computer security consulting firm. He has dedicated his career to helping his clients achieve-and maintain-secure and robust deployments of large-scale Internet, intranet, and e-commerce applications. While focusing on the federal agency it was founded to support, RSL has from time to time served others with Internet and computer security needs.

For the past eight years, Russell and his team have advised and provided Internet security services to a large Federal agency that serves the general public. During that time, numerous attacks were detected and prevented by his team. Numerous operations were brought up to the standards of industry best practices with resulting improvements in security, reliability and cost-effectiveness.

During Russell's career, he has generated tens of millions of dollars in cost savings for more than eighty companies and government agencies through his audits and advice. He has also contributed substantially to both the business and technical communities. He currently serves as science, math, and technology advisor to several pre-IPO companies and has helped numerous other companies and individuals through the New CEO Club, Kabuki, Kabuki West, and First Tuesday - professional and networking organizations that he helped establish.

He has served on national and international committees investigating computer privacy and computer security, given more than one hundred public lectures, and contributed as an author and reviewer to publications of the ACM (Association for Computer Machinery) and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).

Before founding RSL, Russell was a senior scientist at Reasoning Systems for six years, where he designed and built some of the largest systems in the world that read and analyze source code for life-critical and mission-critical systems. Previously, he spent five years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as a member of the computer research group and advisor to the computer security group, contributing to such projects as the identification of and response to the November 1988 Morris Worm, one of the first globally recognized Internet security breaches. His leadership made LLNL one of the few affected sites where damage was minimal.

Russell holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the Etta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi engineering honor societies, the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity and of the IEEE.