Our Company

Wombat Security Technologies is a leading provider of cyber-security training and filtering solutions and a spinoff of the world-renowned School of Computer Science
at Carnegie Mellon University. Its security awareness and training solutions are designed to be engaging and have been scientifically shown to be significantly more effective than traditional training solutions. Wombat’s anti-phishing filtering solutions have been shown to catch significantly more phishing attacks than other commercial solutions. Wombat’s products are easy to deploy and maintain and are used in sectors as diverse as finance, government, telecom, health care, retail, education, transportation & utilities, IT and the service industry. With several million users across North America, Europe and Asia, Wombat Security Technologies has established itself as a global leader in cyber security training and filtering. The company’s solutions have received many accolades from the computer security industry and media and have been the subject of feature articles in high profile publications such as Scientific American as well as many business and trade publications.

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Norman Sadeh, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder

Norman has held leadership positions in education and government and consulted extensively for corporate and government organizations in the US and abroad. He is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where he developed Wombat’s anti-phishing filtering technology. He is also co-founder and co-director of the School of Computer Science’s PhD program in Computation, Organizations and Society and of the School’s MBA Track in Technology Leadership set up jointly with the Tepper School of Business. In the late nineties, Norman worked as program manager with the European Commission’s ESPRIT program, where he was in charge of a $40M portfolio of R&D projects, including a $17M initiative in innovative software tools for education and training. He later served for two years as Chief Scientist of the European Commission’s US$700M initiative in “New Methods of Work and eCommerce”. Norman holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, and a B.S./M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and applied physics from Brussels Free University.

Jason Hong, CTO and Co-Founder

Jason joined the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in 2004 as an assistant professor in the Human Computer Interaction Institute. He works in the areas of ubiquitous computing and usable privacy and security, focusing on location-based services, anti-phishing, mobile social computing, and end-user programming. He is also an author of the book The Design of Sites (Addison-Wesley, 2001), a pattern-based approach to designing customer-centered web sites. He received his PhD from Berkeley and his undergraduate degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Lorrie Cranor, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder

Lorrie is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and the department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. She is director of the CMU Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS). She has authored over 80 research papers on online privacy, phishing and semantic attacks, spam, electronic voting, anonymous publishing, usable access control, and other topics. She has played a key role in building the usable privacy and security research community, having co-edited the seminal book Security and Usability (O’Reilly 2005) and founded the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). She also chaired the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) Specification Working Group at the W3C and authored the book Web Privacy with P3P (O’Reilly 2002). She has served on a number of boards, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors, and on the editorial boards of several journals. In 2003 she was named one of the top 100 innovators 35 or younger by Technology Review magazine. She was previously a researcher at AT&T-Labs Research and taught in the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Kurt Wescoe, VP of Engineering

Kurt brings in-depth software engineering and software security expertise to Wombat, having worked for many years as a software consultant. As VP of Engineering he is responsible for making sure that Wombat’s software solutions are scalable and dependable and are architected to comply with key standards such as SCORM and 508 requirements. He also works hard to ensure that Wombat’s solutions are simple to deploy across different platforms and are easily translatable into any language. Kurt also serves as a faculty in the School of Computer Science’s Master’s Program in e-Business. He has a graduate degree from Carnegie Mellon in E-Commerce and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.

Kristen Clarke, Director of Marketing

Kristen is the Director of Marketing at Wombat. As such, she is responsible for developing the company’s marketing strategy. Kristen brings an extensive network of contacts in the computer security industry and a successful track of business development, sales and marketing, working most recently for the Computer Security Institute (CSI). At CSI, Kristen also gained extensive experience working as editor and writer of widely distributed computer security awareness and training publications such as CSI Alert and FrontLine. Her beats included cyber security awareness, phishing, green computing, and data security among others. She has previous marketing and editing experience working for children’s publishing companies such as Scholastic, publisher of the Harry Potter series. Kristen completed her undergraduate degree at Carnegie Mellon University in English and Creative Writing.