Joe Jaroch
At ten years old, a virus infected my computer, leading me to do what any fifth grader would: write an antivirus product. A few years later, I sold my company to a British cybersecurity firm, which was then acquired by Webroot, becoming their youngest VP of Engineering at the age of 22. The technology I built is now in use on over 30 million devices, generating over $100M/year in revenue.
joe AT joejaroch.com | Chicago, IL
News / Awards
Forbes - How Early Candy Crush Investor Mel Morris Built a Sophisticated... "And while at Prevx, Morris said he met Joe Jaroch, who was a young guy known for building anti-virus software that was embarrassing security companies. After meeting Jaroch, Morris hired him right away and they still work closely together. The two of them recently finished filing 15 out of 150 patents total."
PC Magazine - Editors' Choice Award - Webroot SecureAnywhere (19+ Editors’ Choice awards, including numerous “Antivirus Product of the Year”)
NPR - Computer Security Companies Debate Flame's Origins “Joe Jaroch is vice-president of an American computer security company called Webroot. He says his company blocked Flame back then and didn't think much of it.”
New York Times - Expert Issues a Cyberwar Warning “Joe Jaroch, a vice president at Webroot, an antivirus maker, says he first encountered a sample of Flame in 2007.”
PC Magazine - Webroot Proves 'Secure' Need Not Mean 'Slow' “I spoke with Joe Jaroch, a VP of Engineering at Webroot, about just how this is possible. Jaroch explained that the designers always look for ways to re-use code”.
CNET - New Webroot kicks off with micro-installer "The screenshot is bigger than product," said Joe Jaroch... during a meeting at CNET's San Francisco office in late August. The lead developer of SecureAnywhere smiled when he said that, but he wasn't joking.
PC Magazine - Webroot Totally Revamps Product Line “An all-star Webroot / Prevx team briefed me on what to expect. Chief architect Mel Morris and senior software engineer Joe Jaroch are the brains behind Prevx”
Edison Awards - Edison Award for Personal Security Attended and received award on behalf of Webroot
Frost & Sullivan - Building a Better Mousetrap in Anti-Malware "In preparing this report, Stratecast conducted interviews with representatives of the following company: ... Joe Jaroch - VP Endpoint Solutions Engineering"
PC Magazine - Editors Choice: Prevx 3.0 Interviewed and indirectly quoted for the review
CoinWeek - Publish a Bi-weekly Column on ancient history from the Colosseo Collection to roughly 100,000 monthly readers
Board Positions
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Board of Trustees / American Numismatic Society / May 2015 – present
The American Numismatic Society is dedicated to the study and public appreciation of coins, currencies, medals, and other related objects. Since its founding in 1858, the ANS has assembled a permanent collection with over 800,000 objects dating from 650 BCE to the present and numismatic library, which houses approximately 100,000 books, documents, and artifacts. These resources are used to support publications of books and periodicals, lectures, academic seminars, and exhibitions.
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Advisory Board / History In Your Hands Foundation / Jan 2015 – present
History In Your Hands Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that cooperates with collectors and museums to promote a deeper understanding of the world by putting remarkable pieces of history into the hands of our kids.
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Advisory Board / Artified / Feb 2018 – present
Artified is a new blockchain-based approach to validating the authenticity, grade, and expert opinions of artwork, collectibles, and other physical objects of value.
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Board Member / Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra / May 2010 – July 2015
The ESO ignites lifelong engagement with music through high-caliber performance, innovative programming, and community collaboration.
Patents
- 15/900,076 - Instrumented Research Aggregation System
- 15/888,613 - Compression and Manipulation-Resistant Fuzzy Hashing
- 15/921,303 - Sliding Window Pattern Matching for Large Data Sets
- 15/888,587 - Method and Device for Partition-Based Image Tracking
- 15/923,897 - System and Method for Encrypting Information with Polynomial Distributed Strings
- 15/704,157 - Computational Phylogenetic Analysis
- 15/680,788 - Information Density of Documents
- 15/817,539 - Genetic Convolutional Neural Network
- 15/817,466 - System And Method for Processing Complex Datasets by Classifying Abstract Representations Thereof
- 15/817,597 - Real Time Classification Of Evolving Dictionaries
- 15/817,714 - System and Method for Near Real-Time Analysis of Interests and Sentiment
- 15/817,505 - N-Gram Classification In Social Media Messages
- 15/729,098 - Quantitative Assessment of Text Complexity
- 15/679,714 - Non-Linguistic Content Analysis System
- 15/679,764 - Adaptive Learning Based on Electroencephalographic Data
- 15/795,544 - Health Trend Analysis and Inspection
- 15/794,660 - Tracking the Mental Acuity of an Electronic Device User
- 15/809,226 - Collaboration and Meeting Annotation
- 15/689,118 - Cryptographically Secure Random Number Generator
- 15/722,663 - One-Time-Pad Encryption
- 14/270,069 - Method and Apparatus for Providing Forensic Visibility into Systems and Networks
- 13/372,439 - Methods and Apparatus for Agent-Based Malware Management
- 13/372,375 - Methods and Apparatus for Dealing with Malware
- 13/372,433 - Methods and Apparatus for Malware Threat Research
- 13/738,815 - Managed Execution and Expiration of Agent Commands
- 13/633,956 - Proactive Browser Content Analysis
- EP2750070 - Procédés et appareil de gestion de logiciels malveillants
- EP2750071 - Method and apparatus for dealing with malware
- EP2763035 - Method of evaluating one or more commands to be executed and related apparatus
- EP2992471 - Procédé et Appareil Permettant de Fournir une Visibilite Legale de Systemes et de Reseaux
Research Papers
- Emergent and Extrapolated Fields and Their Impact on Gravitational Interactions
- Constraints and Parameters on a Computational Analog Spacetime
- Implications of Arbitrary Position Granularity in Quantum Spacetime
- PRNGs and Quantum Mechanics
- Implementation of a Bell-coherent Entanglement in Simulations
Hobbies / Interests
- Photography published in:
"The Usborne Art Book about Portraits"
"CAST: Art and Objects Made Using Humanity's Most Transformational Process"
- Contributor the the BBC's Sky At NightRosetta: The Comet’s Tale (Nov 10, 2019)
- Classically trained in cello, piano, and vocal performance
- Music composition (Symphonic/Chamber/Quartet)
- Numismatic research: The study of monetary history and the artistic progression of antiquity
- Running, hiking, and travel