Johannes Ullrich
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Johannes Ullrich is the founder of DShield
DShield
DShield is a community-based collaborative firewall log correlation system. It receives logs from volunteers world wide and uses them to analyze attack trends. It is used as the data collection engine behind the SANS Internet Storm Center . It was officially launched end of November 2000 by...

. DShield is now part of the SANS
SANS
SANS can refer to*Small-angle neutron scattering*SANS Institute *Sympathetic Autonomic Nervous SystemSee also* Sans...

 Internet Storm Center
Internet Storm Center
The Internet Storm Center is a program of the SANS Technology Institute, a branch of the SANS Institute which monitors the level of malicious activity on the Internet, particularly with regards to large-scale infrastructure events....

 which he leads since it was created from Incidents.org and DShield
DShield
DShield is a community-based collaborative firewall log correlation system. It receives logs from volunteers world wide and uses them to analyze attack trends. It is used as the data collection engine behind the SANS Internet Storm Center . It was officially launched end of November 2000 by...

 back in 2001. In 2005, he was named one of the 50 most powerful people in Networking by Network World Magazine. He is also an instructor for the SANS Institute
SANS Institute
The SANS Institute is a private US company that specializes in internet security training. It was founded in 1989, provides computer security training, professional certification through Global Information Assurance Certification , and a research archive - the SANS Reading Room...

.

Johannes grew up in Germany and moved to the US where he obtained a Ph.D. in physics from the University at Albany
University at Albany, The State University of New York
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. His work on x-ray optics was awarded a number of research grants by NASA
NASA
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 and the Department of Energy
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. He also authored a chapter in the Handbook of Optics.

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