Greg Martin (entrepreneur)
American cybersecurity expert and entrepreneur (born 1981)
- Life
- 1981 – present
- Born
- 1981
Greg Martin is an American cybersecurity expert and entrepreneur. Martin was the founder of cyber-security company Anomali and the founder of the cyber security company JASK .
Early Life
Born in 1981 in Dallas, Texas, Martin grew up in working-class Waxahachie, Texas. A self-described autodidact, he taught himself to write code on his family's first personal computer, an IBM 8086 clone. As a teenager, he engaged in computer hacking, including writing a program to flood a local Domino's Pizza with bogus calls and infiltrating his high school's servers to program the computers to shut off simultaneously.
Career
At age 16, while still in high school, Martin ran a local dial-up Internet service provider. After graduating, he relocated to Dallas to work as a network engineer.
In his mid-twenties, Martin taught a computer security course for NASA and served as a cybersecurity advisor for both the U.S. Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), assisting those organizations in tracking and shutting down criminal networks.
In 2009, Martin became a cybersecurity consultant for ArcSight, a leading SIEM company that was subsequently acquired by Hewlett-Packard.
In 2012, he departed HP (ArcSight) and founded ThreatStream Inc., a cloud computing security company based in Redwood City, California, which later rebranded as Anomali. Martin is credited with inventing the first Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) through this work. He also created the Modern Honey Network, a popular open source honeypot project.
In 2015, Martin launched JASK, a cloud security and artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco. JASK was acquired by Sumo Logic in 2019.
Martin subsequently became CEO of Ghost Security Inc. and resides in Austin, Texas.
Patents
Martin holds two United States patents in computer and network security: U.S. Patent 10867034, titled "Method for detecting a cyber attack," and U.S. Patent 10855715, titled "Method for predicting security risks of assets on a computer network."
Board Roles and Advisory Work
Martin serves as an independent board director of SOC Prime Inc. and sits on the advisory boards of Anomali, Inc. and Acalvio Technologies. He is frequently cited as an industry resource in news coverage of high-profile data breaches and government cybersecurity matters.
