anthony bettini

chief technology officer

About

Anthony Bettini is the CTO for WhiteHat Security, the leader in Application Security, enabling businesses to protect critical data, ensure compliance, and manage risk. Previously, Anthony ran Tenable Research where Anthony joined via Tenable’s acquisition of FlawCheck – a leading Container Security startup where Anthony was the Founder & CEO. Before its acquisition by Symantec, Anthony was Founder & CEO of Appthority, a leading Mobile Security startup and winner of the “Most Innovative Company of the Year” award at the RSA Conference.

Country

united states

City

boston

Industry

computer software

Skill

network security, security, reverse engineering, computer security, enterprise software, product management, penetration testing, incident response, cloud computing, computer forensics, business development, information security, android, ips, application security, python, start ups, saas, cryptography, ruby, vulnerability management, software engineering, malware analysis, unix, vulnerability research, ios, technical leadership, mobile devices, corporate development, strategic leadership, management, scala, threat and vulnerability management, vulnerability assessment, vulnerability scanning, program analysis, static analysis, mergers and acquisitions, dynamic analysis, functional programming, mobile security, mobile forensics, endpoint security, amazon web services, scalability, competitive analysis, x86 assembly, ida pro, disassembly, go

Experience

chief technology officer

whitehat security

2019-11 - Present · 6 yrs 11 mos

head of research

tenable

2018-1 - 2019-10 · 1 yr 10 mos

Ran Tenable Research (15 teams, just under 100 people) at Tenable ― 3rd largest dept. after Sales & Engineering. Joined via the acquisition of FlawCheck. Established Product Security program at Tenable.

group product manager

intel corporation

2011-2 - 2011-6 · 5 mos

Led and directed product management of engines & content for all key McAfee products within the risk and compliance, vulnerability, intrusion prevention, and threat response spaces.

research and development manager

foundstone professional services, intel security

2002-6 - 2004-9 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Manager and technical team lead for the Foundstone research team. Responsible for new vulnerability detection checks for the Foundstone vulnerability assessment/management product and 0day vulnerability research (Foundstone was later acquired by McAfee)

senior research manager

mcafee

2004-9 - 2008-10 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Directed most of the vulnerability research teams at McAfee, including McAfee Vulnerability Manager (MVM/Foundstone), Host Intrusion Prevention (HIPS/Entercept/HBSS), Network Access Control (MNAC), and the McAfee Threat Intelligence Service. Also ran the respective Content QA & sustaining teams Later, as a product manager within Research, responsible for features & roadmap for the sensors & content teams for: McAfee Vulnerability Manager (MVM/Foundstone), Host Intrusion Prevention (HIPS/Entercept/HBSS), Network Access Control (MNAC), the McAfee Threat Intelligence Service, Risk Advisor, Policy Auditor, Remediation Manager (Hercules), the McAfee Labs Common Research Database, Threat Center, Anti-Malware Customer Service Portal, Network Security Platform (IntruShield) (NIPS), Firewall Enterprise (Sidewinder), Network Access Control (NAC), and System Compliance Profiler (SCP) (McAfee was later acquired by Intel)

senior security architect

guarde

2000-5 - 2002-6 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Discovered new vulnerabilities in a variety of applications during consulting engagements. Wrote SOWs in response to RFPs, priced services, and led project delivery. Common projects included: line-by-line source code analysis, pentesting (internal & external), blackbox application assessments (webapps and binaries), forensics, architecture reviews, etc. (Guardent was later acquired by VeriSign)

security analyst

bindview

1999-2 - 2000-5 · 1 yr 4 mos

Worked as part of the RAZOR security team to analyze recently disclosed vulnerabilities to create checks to detect them for Bindview's vulnerability assessment product (bv-Control for Internet Security) (Bindview was later acquired by Symantec)

security analyst

netect

1998-12 - 1999-2 · 3 mos

Analyzed publicly-disclosed security vulnerabilities and wrote checks to detect them for Netect's vulnerability assessment product (Netective) (Netect was later acquired by Bindview)

founder and chief executive officer

flawcheck

2015-2 - 2016-9 · 1 yr 8 mos

Founding CEO of the first-to-market application security product for Container Security. Was CEO during all major company milestones (inception, all product launches, booked all enterprise customers, and negotiated acquisition). Co-wrote pieces of Software Composition Analysis-based (SCA) / Static Analysis (SAST) product in Scala, Python, and Golang. (FlawCheck was acquired by Tenable)

founder and chief technology officer

appthority

2013-11 - 2014-9 · 11 mos

Founded Appthority in 06/2011 to help enterprises measure the risk of all of the mobile apps in their environment (including on BYOD devices). Won our first award, "Most Innovative Company at RSA Conference 2012" the day we launched the company at the Innovation Sandbox at the RSA Conference in 02/2012. Was CEO during all of our initial major milestones (initial company launch, first 10M+ raised in VC, all early product launches, first 50+ customers, first xM+ in bookings, etc.) -- later moved to a CTO role and ran engineering, product management, and everything product-related (Appthority was acquired by Symantec)