The tech executive mentioned in the criminal case against prominent cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussman was recognized on Thursday as an industry leader who founded the world’s first commercial internet hosting company specializing in malware detection and holder of 10 patents. .
Rodney Joffe as “Tech Executive-1” in Sussman’s indictment for allegedly lying to the FBI by denying his links to the loser Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election campaign against former President Donald Trump, according to CNN. has been referenced.
Joffe, who is not charged with any wrongdoing, “retained Sussman as a lawyer” in February 2015 in connection with “an unspecified case involving a US government agency,” according to the indictment.
Sussman’s indictment is part of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the FBI investigation, which claims Trump’s campaign colluded with Russian officials.
Joffe’s LinkedIn profile shows he retired earlier this month as senior vice president and chief technology officer of Security, a Reston, Va.-Based company that serves more than 8,000 clients. commercial and government services in a variety of Internet-related services. provides services and products. World.
Prior to that he worked with UltranDNS Corp. Ltd., the first cloud-based company to develop and market “domain name” services, which translate digital Internet addresses into memorable names that can be entered in a browser, developed by Neustar in approximately 2006. Was purchased . $ 62 million in cash.
Joffe founded and was CTO of Genuity, the first company to offer commercial hosting services that allow individuals and businesses to build and maintain websites without having to run their own internet-connected computer servers.
In 2013, he became one of the first citizens to receive the FBI Director’s Award for Cyber Security, according to his profile on the Forbes website.
This honor included the discovery of malware called “Butterfly botnet,” which infected more than 11 million computers worldwide and the theft of credit cards, banking and other information which caused more than 850 million dollars in damage, which had to be avoided. damage before.
Other Joffe winners include the 2016 Mary Letensky Lifetime Achievement Award from the M3AAWG, the Global Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group.
Joffe’s patents include innovations to establish secure Internet domain names and detect spoofed computer networks.
In 2015, he was among cyber experts who called for the sacking of Catherine Archuleta as director of the Office of Personnel Management under then President Barack Obama following a massive cyber attack on OPM computer networks.
Suspected Chinese hackers hacked the personal information of more than 22 million current and former government employees in one of the largest cyberattacks in history.
“It’s not a safety issue,” Joff told The Hill at the time.
“As a manager, he should have managed the process, and he didn’t… If you stick to a schedule, you need to make sure that the metrics you set are acceptable.”
Archuleta, a former teacher who was Obama’s national political director in 2012, was later forced to resign.
According to Sussman’s indictment, Joffe “hired Sussman as an attorney in 2015, days after Trump won, Joffe emailed someone and said: [cybersecurity] Job by the Democrats when it looked like they were going to win. “
“I certainly wouldn’t take a job under Trump,” he said.
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