Vice President and Chief Security Officer

With nearly 20 years experience in the Internet network operations, security and telecommunications industries, Danny McPherson brings extensive technical leadership to Arbor Networks. Today he is a main contributor to the company's industry activities, overall strategy and product architecture. Prior to joining Arbor, he was with Amber Networks, and previously held network operations and architecture positions for nearly a decade at internetMCI, Genuity (acquired by GTE Internetworking), Qwest Communications and the U.S. Army Signal Corp.

Danny has been an active participant in Internet standardization since 1996. Currently he is a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and co-chairs the IETF's L3VPN WG. He also serves on the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Council (SSAC), the FCC's Network Reliability and Interoperability Council (NRIC), and is quite active in the network and security operations and research communities.

Danny has authored a significant number of books, Internet protocol standards, network and security research papers and other documents related to Internet routing protocols, network security solutions, Internet addressing and network operations.