Steinthor Bjarnason

Steinthor Bjarnason

Principal Engineer

Steinthor Bjarnason is a Principal Security Engineer on the NETSCOUT’s ASERT team, performing applied research on new technologies and solutions to defend against DDoS attacks with specific focus on automated DDoS detection and mitigation. Steinthor has been an active participant in the IT industry for more than 36 years, with primary focus on Internet Security,  Cloud Security, SDN Security, Core Network Security and DDoS attack mitigation.

Steinthor is an active inventor, currently holding more than 10 patents within the areas of Security Automation and DDoS Detection/Mitigation.  In addition he is a co-author of IETF RFC7575 and RFC8994  and holds a CCIE Security certification.