Christofer Hoff

Christofer Hoff is VP of Strategy & Planning at Juniper Networks’ Security Business Unit, previously serving as chief security architect, responsible for worldwide security solutions architecture, customer advocacy, and field enablement.

He was previously director of cloud & virtualization solutions at Cisco Systems where he focused on virtualization and cloud computing security, spending most of his time interacting with global enterprises and service providers, governments, and the defense and intelligence communities.

Prior to Cisco, he was Unisys Corporation’s chief security architect, served as Crossbeam Systems’ chief security strategist, was the CISO and director of enterprise security at a $25 billion financial services company and was founder/CTO of a national security consultancy amongst other startup endeavors.

Hoff engages in numerous community and industry events and is founder of the HacKid technology conference for kids and co-founder of R00tz Asylum (formerly DEF CON Kids)

He blogs at: http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog and can be found tormenting Twitter via @beaker