Michael Dopheide

Michael “Dop” Dopheide has spent the majority of his career working in the R&E community specializing in systems engineering, security research, incident response, and network intrusion detection.  He especially enjoys helping coworkers debug problems at the packet and protocol levels. In addition to his operational security role, Dop helps support the open source Zeek community and volunteers to beta test the SANS Holiday Hack challenge.

Outside of work, Dop is an avid woodworker and helps teach martial arts, holding black belts in Jeet Kune Do and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.  He and his wife have two black cats, Stanley and Stevie "Nicks", as well as a ball python named "L.C."