Joe Klein is a 30-year veteran of the IT and IA industry. He has extensive experience in DoD, US Government and commercial sectors, focusing on information assurance, network security, IoT security and IPv6. Mr. Klein is often requested to speak at professional security venues and routinely participates in high-level government working groups as an expert on secure implementation of IPv6.

Over the last 15 years, his involvement in IPv6 has included:

• Contributing to dozens of security policies, practices, guidance documents, and security standards published by NIST, DoD, US Government, and the IPv6 Task Force among others.
• Development of IPv6 training classes and labs for focus on administrators, security professionals, security operations centers, developers, security architects and penetration testers.
• Identifying dozens of vulnerabilities in multiple products, and assisting to quietly mitigate IPv6 "problems".
• Performing security and vulnerability testing of major IA products including firewalls, IDS/IPS/DPI, assessment tools, scanners, forensics tools and home firewall/routers.
• Security researcher for the Air Force's IPv6 focused IDS/IPS.
• Developer of the first IPv6 focused "cyber threat intelligence" feeds and the largest IPv6 focused Honeynet containing 1.2 billion, billion IPv6 honeypots.