About Us

Management Team

Dr. Murphey holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University and has fifteen years of experience in software development as an author, architect, product line manager, a business development liaison and board member. He specializes in rapid execution for emerging markets.

Rich Murphey began his academic career teaching and conducting research in neural networks on the faculty of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston, Texas. His industry career began at Halliburton Energy Services as a Senior Scientist on the Sensor Physics team. At Halliburton he established a long term relationship with MIT's Earth Resources Lab through collaborative innovation of acoustic wave simulation and construction of a low-cost Beowulf-style supercomputer. During this time, he obtained two patents for real-time acoustic measurement of borehole geometry.

Dr. Murphey's interest in internet security began with his role as Chief Scientist at software startup PentaSafe Security Technologies. He pioneered the architecture of PentaSafe's first enterprise product lines and managed the intrusion detection product line. During this time, PentaSafe's host-based intrusion detection product for Windows was ranked third in world-wide sales by International Data Corporation (IDC).

Dr. Murphey is best known for open-source contributions as a co-founder of the FreeBSD Unix operating system and the Xfree86 Project window system. He served for 12 years on each project on both the board of directors and the core development team.

Rich currently serves on the boards of the XFree86 Project, Inc. and Infragard Houston. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, WISA, ISSA, SANS and CIS. He is a frequent speaker at national conferences, most recently on technical advancements in intrusion prevention software. His main interests are operating systems and Intrusion Detection Systems.