# Jianhong Xia

> Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jianhong

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Netskope
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
* Cloud-based Network Intrusion Prevention System (NIPS) and Real-time Policy Configuration
* MAPP threat/vulnerability management and IPS signature develop process
* Gap analysis on Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Malware Detection and NIPS in cloud platform
* Malware/URL Threat Feed Ingestion and Pipeline
* Continuous End-to-End Security Service Monitoring

### Sr Staff Engineer Software @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara, CA
* Integration on IoT security solution with the existing Palo Alto Networks product
* Security feature extraction for AI/ML modeling on IoT security
* Transition from ZingBox platform to Palo Alto Networks platform

### Principal Security Researcher @ Zingbox Inc. (A Palo Alto Networks Company)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Zingbox got acquired by Palo Alto Networks in September, 2019. 

* IoT Malware collection and analysis, feature extraction and machine learning on petabyte data for anomaly detection on IoT devices.
* IoT devices identification, and their network behavior analysis
* Built malware threat-lab from scratch for malware research and security feature extraction
* Design security-hub platform on event collection and analysis for security analyst and incident response
* Threat Report for IoT devices

### Sr Security Engineer @ Infoblox
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Santa Clara
1. Worked in security team for malicious domain detection/DDoS prevention and emerging-threat rules on NIOS product. 
2. Worked in threat intelligence group for DNS tunneling, malware analysis, DGA (Domain Generation Algorithm) detection with machine learning.
3. Worked in SaaS analytics team for big-data analysis, and inline DGA detection deployment to AWS cloud infrastructure.

### Research Architect @ McAfee (Intel Security Group)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014

### Senior Security Researcher @ McAfee Inc (Now it is an Intel Company)
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Santa Clara

### Research Scientist @ McAfee Inc (Now it is an Intel Company)
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011

### Senior Software Engineer @ Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. China
Jan 1996 – Jan 1999


## Education
### Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst

### Bachelor and Master's degree
University of Science and Technology of China


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xiajh

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Last updated: 2026-04-12