Jon Oberheide

Jon Oberheide is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur in the field of cybersecurity. He is the founder of Duo Security, a security firm that was later purchased by Cisco. He also sits on the board of directors for numerous companies.

Biography

Oberheide grew up in Troy, Michigan and began fixing people's computers when he was only in middle school. While attending high school, Oberheide founded a web hosting business with his friends, and would scrape the internet for email addresses in order to find potential clients. He would also hack networks as a challenge to see if they were secured. At the age of 17, he hacked into a honeypot set up by Dug Song, a security expert and future Duo Security co-founder who set up the honeypot to lure talented hackers.
Oberheide attended the University of Michigan where he earned a PhD in CSE. During his studies, he worked with Farnam Jahanian at the University where he discovered multiple flaws in Android devices. He is also credited with proposing the first Cloud-based antivirus design in 2008. In 2010, Oberheide founded Duo Security, a security firm that was purchased by Cisco in 2018 for $2.3 billion. Oberheide served as the company's CTO. During his career, he has obtained more than 70 patents related to cybersecurity.
Oberheide sits on the board of several startups and non-profit organizations, including DNSFilter, runZero, Push Security, and The Henry Ford.