Welcome Raffael Marty to the Log Analysis Professionals Blogger Roster

Posted on February 26th, 2008 | by Andrew Hay |

I’d like to welcome Raffael “Raffy” Marty to the Log Analysis Professionals stable of professional bloggers.

As chief security strategist and senior product manager, Raffy is customer advocate and guardian - expert on all things security and log analysis at Splunk. With customers, he uses his skills in data visualization, log management, intrusion detection, and compliance to solve problems and create solutions. Inside Splunk, he is the conduit for customer issues, new ideas and market requirements to the development team. Fully immersed in industry initiatives, standards efforts and activities, Raffy lives and breathes security and
visualization. His passion for visualization is evident in the many presentations he gives at conferences around the world.

Active in standard committees like CEE (common event expression) and OVAL (open vulnerability and assessment language), he is also creator of automation tools Thor and AfterGlow, founder of the security visualization portal http://secviz.org, and contributing author to a number of books on security and visualization. Before coming to Splunk he managed the solutions team at ArcSight, was an IT security consultant for PriceWaterhouse Coopers, and was a member of the Global Security Analysis Lab at IBM Research, where he participated in various intrusion detection related research projects.