Richard Struse
Chief Strategist, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Mitre

Richard Struse

Mr. Struse serves as the Chief Advanced Technology Officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) where he is responsible for technology vision, strategy and implementation in support of the NCCIC’s mission. Mr.Struse is the creator of the STIX and TAXII automated information sharing initiatives which have been widely adopted across the public and private sectors. In October 2014, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson presented Mr. Struse with one of the department’s highest honors, the Secretary’s Award for Excellence, in recognition of his pioneering work on STIX and TAXII.

Prior to joining DHS, Mr. Struse was Vice President of Research and Development at VOXEM, Inc., where he was responsible for the architecture, design and development of a high‐performance, extreme highreliability communications software platform that is in use in telecommunications systems around the world. He began his technical career at Bell Laboratories where his work focused on tools to automate software development and the UNIX operating system.

In 2015 Mr. Struse was named by Federal Computer Week as one of the “Federal 100” in recognition of his leadership role in the development of cyber threat intelligence technology standards.

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