About the speaker of the tutorial on Infrastructure Protection from Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
Hemant Jain, Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer, IntruGuard
Hemant Jain's 25 years in the industry span network security, product development and
business development. At Sunnyvale, CA, USA based IntruGuard, Hemant has
spearheaded the technology. strategy and business development. He built the company
and the products and works closely with core customers. Prior to co-founding IntruGuard
Devices, Hemant was Chief Architect at Starlight Micro, Inc., where he was responsible
for conceptualizing network security ASICs. Hemant was a lead architect at Internet
Devices (which was acquired by Alcatel for USD 180M in 1999) as well as at Alcatel,
where he was responsible for conceptualizing and implementing a range of technologies,
including a one-touch VPN client, firewalls and NAT support for multimedia and VOIP
protocols. Hemant also led large and highly successful product development teams in
Tata Infotech and iFlex Solutions in India. Hemant earned his MSEE from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. He has five pending patents in network security
space.