Gerhard Eschelbeck, CTO and VP of Engineering, Qualys
Gerhard Eschelbeck is responsible for securing thousands of customer networks worldwide, including over 150 Fortune 1,000 companies. Mr. Eschelbeck also serves on the Department of Homeland Security Task Force on Cyber Security Early Warning. He is well-known for "The Laws of Vulnerabilities," based on research derived from the industry's largest real-world vulnerability dataset, a statistical analysis of millions of critical vulnerabilities collected by millions scans during a two-year period. Mr. Eschelbeck recently testified to Congress on his findings, at the hearing on "Worm and Virus Defense: How Can We Protect Our Nation's Computers From These Serious Threats?" Mr. Eschelbeck's research has been featured at major security conferences including Black Hat, CSI, and RSA as well as in The Wall Street Journal and The Economist.

Prior to joining Qualys, Mr. Eschelbeck was Senior VP of Engineering for security products at Network Associates, VP of Engineering of anti-virus products at McAfee Associates (before it was acquired by NAI), and Founder of IDS GmbH. Earlier, he was a research scientist at the University of Linz, Austria, from which he earned Masters and Ph.D. Degrees in Computer Science and where he teaches regularly in the field of network security. Mr. Eschelbeck has authored several papers and is an inventor of numerous patents in the field of managed network security.