Technology >> CEO Interviews >> July 23, 2004
RON GULA is President and Chief Technical Officer of Tenable Network
Security. Gula was the original author of the Dragon IDS and CTO of
Network Security Wizards which was acquired by Enterasys Networks. At
Enterasys, Mr. Gula was Vice President of IDS Products and worked with
many top financial, government, security service providers and
commercial companies to help deploy and monitor large IDS installations.
Mr. Gula was also the Director of Risk Mitigation for US Internetworking
and was responsible for intrusion detection and vulnerability detection
for one of the first application service providers. Mr. Gula worked for
BBN and GTE Internetworking where he conducted security assessments as a
consultant, helped to develop one of the first commercial network
honeypots and helped develop security policies for large carrier-class
networks. Mr. Gula began his career in information security while
working at the National Security Agency conducting penetration tests of
government networks and performing advanced vulnerability research. Mr.
Gula has a BS from Clarkson University and a MSEE from University of
Southern Illinois. Ron Gula was the recipient of the 2004 Techno
Security Conference "Industry Professional of the Year" award. Profile
Mr. Gula: Absolutely. We are about two years old and we were founded by
myself, Jack Huffard, and Renaud Deraison. My
