Renée Burton

VP of Threat Intel. DNS all day, every day.

United States

About

I like to hunt bad guys. I am passionate about blocking those same bad guys in DNS. I learnt both of these things during my almost 23 years at the National Security Agency (NSA). Now i head up Infoblox Threat Intel. We create original intelligence for Infoblox products to protect both enterprise customers and consumers worldwide. Stating the obvious... this is my personal account. i may post factual content from Infoblox but anything that can be construed as an "opinion" is my own and may not be shared by others at the company. No one else has access to this account and no AI is used... all those typos and grammatical errors are my own. Technical Expertise: DNS analysis, data science, data analysis, computer network exploitation, network security, cryptography, mathematics, protocol analysis, network analysis, Python, Pandas/SciKit, Spark/Scala, ElasticSearch. Leadership Expertise: building orgs from scratch; technical management of small to medium-sized groups; budget planning and execution; strategic development and implementation

Experience

  • Infoblox (8 yrs 4 mos)
    • Vice President of Threat Intelligence
      Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Senior Director Threat Intelligence
      Nov 2021 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    • Principal Data Scientist
      Oct 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Level (SES DISL) Data Scientist at United States Department of Defense
    Sep 2016 - Apr 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

    very large-scale data analytics program for cyber analysis and operations. focused on providing cyber analysts with information, tools and tradecraft based in data science techniques to accelerate decision making and increase veracity. Python, ElasticSearch, Spark, Scala. statistical methods for identifying outliers, fingerprinting, and inferring missing observations.

  • United States Department of Defense (21 yrs)
    • Data Science Research, Chief (Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Level SES)
      Sep 2010 - Jun 2016 · 5 yrs 10 mos

      built an organization of data science researchers in the area of data science, particularly as it applies to intelligence analysis. the organization applies supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised machine learning techniques to multi-modal data, including metadata and content, and includes all aspects of Big Data analysis, including data-at-rest and streaming. Python (incl Scikit learn, pandas), Scala, and Spark.

    • Computer Science Research, Deputy Chief (Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Level SES)
      Apr 2009 - Sep 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Technical management and strategic guidance for research workforce in areas of data science applications, cloud technologies, software analysis, human language technologies, image and video analysis, human-computer user interface, and mobile devices.

    • Chief Strategist, Defense Intelligence Senior Level (Senior Executive Service)
      Apr 2004 - Apr 2009 · 5 yrs 1 mo

      Led technical and policy strategy development, and oversaw implementation, in three different organizations with various technical and programmatic objectives. Elevated to Senior Executive Service, Defense Intelligence Senior Leader (Oct 2005)