Martin Roesch

Martin Roesch founded Sourcefire in 2001 and was its chief technology officer until the company was acquired by Cisco Systems on October 7, 2013 for $2.7B.

[1] Roesch now is CEO of Netography[2] which raised $45M in Series A funding[3] in November 2021.

Snort is still developed by Cisco Systems today and remains the most-used open source IDS technology.

Martin has developed various network security tools and technologies, including intrusion prevention and detection systems, honeypots, network scanners, and policy enforcement systems, for organizations such as GTE Internetworking, Stanford Telecommunications, Inc., and the United States Department of Defense.

Martin has been interviewed as an industry expert in multiple technology publications, as well as print and online news services such as MSNBC, Wall Street Journal, CNET, ZDNet, and Scientific American.