Dr. Paul Q. Judge serves as chief research officer and vice president of cloud services at Barracuda Networks. In this role, he leads the Barracuda Labs threat intelligence team and is responsible for application security, Web threat, intrusion and anti-spam intelligence for over 100,000 appliances deployed worldwide. He was co-founder and chief technology officer at Purewire, a Web security SaaS vendor acquired by Barracuda Networks in October 2009. Previously he served as chief technology officer of CipherTrust and Secure Computing. Dr. Judge is a recognized authority on Internet security, having won numerous honors including InfoWorld Top 25 CTOs, Atlanta Power 30 under 30 and MIT Technology Review Magazine's 100 Top Innovators under 35. He regularly presents at leading conferences and is quoted by national business and technology trade press, and has been awarded 10 patents and has over 20 patents pending. Dr. Judge earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.