Livio Ricciulli, chief security scientist at Force10 Networks, has over 16 years of networking and computer engineering experience. Livio joined Force10 through its acquisition of MetaNetworks, where he was both a founder and president. Earlier, Livio founded and was CTO at Reactive Network Solutions, where he developed an industry-leading network anomaly detection engine to stop denial of service attacks. Livio has also served as senior research scientist at SRI International where he led a number of research contracts for the U.S. government, including DARPA, NSA, NSF and ONR.