Oliver Friedrichs, SVP, Cloud Technology Group

Oliver Friedrichs is Senior Vice President, Cloud Technology Group at Sourcefire, providing direction for the company’s cloud-based technology strategy and executing Sourcefire’s product development roadmap for the cloud platform. He brings more than 15 years of expertise in developing innovative security technologies and has worked closely with numerous government and commercials organizations to help address their cybersecurity requirements. Friedrichs joined Sourcefire in January 2011 as part of the Immunet acquisition where he was founder and CEO. Under Friedrichs’ leadership Immunet, a privately-held leading provider of advanced cloud-based anti-malware technologies, grew to serve over 750,000 users in 192 countries.

Prior to Immunet, Friedrichs spent six years at Symantec, the producers of Norton Antivirus, serving as Director, Emerging Technologies. In this role he managed Symantec Advanced Threat Research and oversaw the delivery of new technologies for antivirus definitions, intrusion detection updates, and early warning technologies. Friedrichs served as co-founder at SecurityFocus until the company’s acquisition by Symantec in 2002, building the industry’s first early warning technology for Internet attacks, the DeepSight Threat Management System.

Prior to SecurityFocus, Friedrichs served as co-founder and Vice President of Engineering at Secure Networks, Inc., acquired by McAfee in 1998. At Secure Networks, he architected and managed the development of CyberCop Scanner. Friedrichs architected and developed a prototype of the industry’s first commercial penetration testing product, codenamed SNIPER, acquired by Core Security Technologies in 2001 and further developed to become CORE IMPACT, the market leader for automated penetration testing.

Friedrichs attended the University of Manitoba, has had several security-related patents issued and is also the co-author of three security-related books.