Richard Struse is the Chief Strategist for Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) at The MITRE Corporation, leading the effort to improve cyber defense by better understanding the adversary’s tactics and techniques. In addition, he is the chair of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Technical Committee within OASIS, an international standards development organization. In 2018, Mr. Struse was elected to serve on the board of directors of OASIS. Previously, Mr. Struse served as the Chief Advanced Technology Officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) where he was responsible for technology vision, strategy and implementation in support of the NCCIC’s mission. Mr. Struse is the creator of the STIX and TAXII automated information sharing initiatives which have been widely adopted across the public and private sectors. In October 2014, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson presented Mr. Struse with one of the department’s highest honors, the Secretary’s Award for Excellence, in recognition of his pioneering work on STIX and TAXII. Prior to joining DHS, Mr. Struse was Vice President of Research and Development at VOXEM, Inc., where he was responsible for the architecture, design and development of a high-performance, extreme high- reliability communications software platform that is in use in telecommunications systems around the world. He began his technical career at Bell Laboratories where his work focused on tools to automate software development and the UNIX operating system. In 2015 Mr. Struse was named by Federal Computer Week as one of the “Federal 100” in recognition of his leadership role in the development of cyber threat intelligence technology standards. In 2016, OASIS selected Mr. Struse to receive their “Distinguished Contributor” award for his work as “a pioneer in the development of the STIX, TAXII, and CybOX standards and was instrumental in successfully transitioning the CTI work to OASIS.”
