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Director for Software Assurance
National Cyber Security Division (NSCD)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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The National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) works collaboratively with public, private, and international entities to secure cyberspace and America’s cyber assets. To protect the cyber infrastructure, NCSD has identified two overarching objectives:
In his role as Director for Software Assurance, Joe leads government interagency public/private collaboration efforts with industry, academia, and standards organizations to shift the security paradigm away from patch management by addressing security needs in work force education and training, more comprehensive diagnostic capabilities, software security automation, and security-enhanced development and acquisition practices.
Joe served in the U.S. Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel in program management. After retiring from the Air Force, he worked in the cyber security industry as vice president for product and process engineering. Joe also served in two software-related positions within the Office of the Secretary of Defense prior to accepting his current DHS position.
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Co-Author L0phtCrack
Co-Founder/Chief Scientist
Veracode
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Mr. Rioux founded @stake, a security consultancy, as well as L0pht Heavy Industries, a renowned security think tank. Mr. Rioux was a research scientist at @stake, where he was responsible for developing new software analysis techniques and for applying cutting edge research to solve difficult security problems. He also led and managed the development for a new enterprise security product in 2000 known as the SmartRisk Analyzer (SRA), a binary analysis tool and its patented algorithms, and has been responsible for its growth and development for the past five years.
At L0pht, Mr. Rioux was a senior developer. He co-authored the best-selling Windows password auditing tool @stake LC (L0phtCrack) and the AntiSniff network intrusion detection system. His other activities with L0pht included significant security research, publication work and public speaking engagements. Mr. Rioux is also responsible for numerous security advisories in many applications, operating systems and environments. He is recognized as an authority in the areas of Windows product vulnerability assessment, application optimization and program analysis.
Mr. Rioux, co-founder and currently chief scientist of Veracode, is responsible for the technical vision and design of Veracode’s advanced security technology. Working with the engineering team, his primary role is the design of new algorithms and security analysis techniques.
His background includes 23 years of computer programming and software engineering experience on a wide range of platforms and for numerous companies, including financial institutions, mechanical engineering firms, educational institutions and multimedia groups.
He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.