The Minds Behind the Research

Tas Giakouminakis

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Tas leads the development and integration of Rapid7’s award-winning solutions, driving the technical direction to enable customers through quality, simplicity, and innovation. Prior to founding Rapid7, Tas helped form Percussion Software, where he led the development of Percussion's first product. He has also developed software in the security and risk areas for CitiCorp.

Lee Weiner

Chief Product Officer

Lee Weiner brings a wealth of security and product leadership experience to Rapid7, where he is responsible for leading the directions and delivery of Rapid7's entire product portfolio. Before becoming Chief Product Officer, Lee was VP of Products at LogMeIn, Inc., a provider of cloud-based remote connectivity solutions. He has also held leadership roles at several software security firms, including Netegrity, Inc., IMlogic, Inc., and Symantec Corporation. Lee received a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts.

Curt Barnard

Principal Security Researcher

Curt Barnard is a cyber security professional with 15 years of experience across both the public and private sector. At Rapid7, Curt is a Principal Security Researcher working with projects Sonar and Heisenberg, analyzing internet-wide security issues with global impact. Before joining the team at Rapid7, Curt spent time breaking software with the Department of Defense, vetting cyber security companies for venture capital firms, and building his own startup from the ground up. When he isn't busy popping calc.exe, Curt enjoys changing your desktop's wallpaper and moving your icons around.

Tod Beardsley

Research Director

Tod Beardsley is the director of research at Rapid7. He has over 20 years of hands-on security experience, stretching from in-band telephony switching to modern IoT implementations. He has held IT Ops and IT Security positions in large organizations such as 3Com, Dell, and Westinghouse, as both an offensive and defensive practitioner. Today, Tod directs the myriad security research programs and initiatives at Rapid7. He can be uniquely identified at https://keybase.io/todb.

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Andreas Galauner

Senior Security Researcher

Andy is a full-time nerd and always liked everything about computers. He got into IT-Security during his studies of computer science and just got stuck with it while doing private security related projects and learning more stuff about IT-security with like-minded friends. In the Rapid7 Labs team he is mostly responsible for building honeypots. In his free time he plays CTF for a big German CTF team and likes to tinker around with embedded computing systems - both building and hacking them.

Erick Galinkin

Principal Artificial Intelligence Researcher

Erick Galinkin is a hacker and artificial intelligence researcher whose passion is in finding ways to both apply AI to security and apply security to AI. His experience spans the spectrum of information security, including threat intelligence, vulnerability discovery, data science, and malware analysis. As part of Rapid7’s OCTO Team, he conducts research and informs policy on the cybersecurity implications of artificial intelligence. Erick has presented his research at leading industry and academic conferences and actively writes papers for academic journals. Outside of Rapid7, Erick does research on the theory of deep learning and privacy preserving machine learning while pursuing his PhD at Drexel University.

Deral Heiland

Research Lead, IoT

Deral Heiland, CISSP, has over 20 years of experience in Information Technology, and has held multiple positions including: Senior Network Analyst, Network Administrator, Database Manager, Financial Systems Manager and Senior Information Security Analyst. Over the last 8+ years Heiland’s career has focused on security research, security assessments, penetration testing, and consulting for corporations and government agencies. Heiland has conducted security research on numerous technical subjects, releasing white papers, security advisories, and presenting at numerous national and international security conferences including Blackhat, Defcon, Shmoocon, DerbyCon, Hackcon Norway, and Hack In Paris. Heiland’s commentary has appeared in several media outlets and publications including ABC World News, Bloomberg UTV, MIT Technical Review, MSNBC, SC Magazine, Threat Post and The Register.

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Roy Hodgman

Lead Data Scientist

Roy Hodgman is a Lead Data Scientist at Rapid7 where he works with a team of data scientists to identify, understand and protect against new security threats using machine learing and other statistical techniques. His current focus is on developing systems that autonomously find, evaluate and contextualize security incidents. Prior to joining Rapid7, Roy spent more than a decade in the security industry working on authentication, biometric and fraud detection problems.

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Patrick Kiley

Principal Security Consultant & Research Lead

Patrick Kiley (GXPN, GPEN, GAWN, GCIH, CISSP, MCSE) has over 18 years of information security experience working with both private sector employers and the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). While he was with the NNSA he built the NNSA's SOC and spent several years working for emergency teams. Patrick has performed research in Avionics security and Internet connected transportation platforms. Patrick has experience in all aspects of penetration testing, security engineering, hardware hacking, IoT, Autonomous Vehicles and CAN bus.

Vasudha Shivamoggi

Senior Data Scientist

Vasudha is a data scientist on the Rapid7 OCTO team. She develops predictive models to better understand the nature of security threats and vulnerabilities. Prior to this, Vasudha has worked in retail analytics and quantum computing, and has a PhD in theoretical physics.