Ajit Thyagarajan is an innovative and passionate technologist who explores challenging technology opportunities. He is currently CTO at Atomic Mole, a cybersecurity company developing a simple and effective security solution for the Enterprise. Until recently, he held multiple Director positions at Fidelis Cybersecurity. Prior to Fidelis, he was heavily involved with Internet Protocols and building fast routers. He was instrumental in the early development and adoption of IP multicast and contributed several changes to the BSD kernel. He also worked on several enhancements to NTP (Network Time Protocol) during his graduate student days. Ajit has presented at various security conferences, the most recent being BSides DC 2016, BroCon 2016 and BSides San Francisco 2016. Ajit currently mentors several cybersecurity start-ups as part of Mach37, a Virginia based Cyber security incubator.