Bio

As a security technologist and leader for over 20 years, Jeff’s deep experience securing information and technology assets as well as years of successful engineering leadership have resulted in secure product deployments to thousands of customers. As the Deputy CISO at ExtraHop Networks, Jeff leads the ExtraHop team towards groundbreaking security and privacy services in ExtraHop's best of breed network monitoring tool. ExtraHop's Threat Research Team is responsible for researching, implementing, and deploying protections from network threats. Prior to ExtraHop, Jeff Costlow was the security architect for Tempered Networks where he was responsible for architecting product direction as well as building security into all aspects of the organization. He built out a scalable identity provisioning infrastructure and directly improved the performance of the core dataplane fabric. Prior to Tempered Networks, he led a team responsible for general security of F5 Networks’ flagship BIG-IP appliance, where he focused on software development security, host and network security, authentication and authorization systems and vulnerability response. Prior to F5, he enhanced the Kerberos network security protocol for CyberSafe, Inc. Jeff holds a B.S. in Computer Science from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.