Founder
Proper Tools was founded by Trey Darley, a resilience engineer working at the intersection of cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and systemic risk.
- Standards & coordination: Co-chairs the FIRST Time Security SIG; co-founded the FIRST Standards SIG and the DNS Abuse SIG.
- Threat intelligence standards: Former co-chair of the OASIS CTI Technical Committee (STIX/TAXII) and contributor across ITU-T, IETF, and OASIS.
- ITU-T work: Co-editor of ITU-T work item C396 (approved December 2025), addressing global coordination requirements for 2038-class epoch rollover events.
- Product & engineering: Built threat intelligence platform capabilities for FS-ISAC communities; earlier embedded systems engineering for telco-grade infrastructure.
- Public sector: Founding team at Belgium’s national CSIRT (Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium) (CERT.be); architected and implemented the Belgian Anti-Phishing Shield (BAPS) for the CCB.
- Leadership: Former Security Senior Manager at Accenture; former elected member of the FIRST Board of Directors.
- Speaking & writing: Regular speaker and writer on infrastructure risk and long-horizon failure modes.
Patron saints include Grace Hopper, Evi Nemeth, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Dan Kaminsky, and Paul Erdős.
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Selected Publications
Beyond Planted Bugs in “Trusting Trust”: The Input-Processing Frontier
IEEE Security & Privacy, January/February 2014.
Co-authored with Sergey Bratus, Michael Locasto, Meredith L. Patterson,
Rebecca “bx” Shapiro, and Anna Shubina.