Dr. Jared Smith

Distinguished Engineer, R&D Strategy

Dr. Jared Smith is a Distinguished Threat Researcher at SecurityScorecard, leading technical threat research engagements and overseeing global threat intelligence data collection. His work has been cited in Forbes, Dark Reading, BBC, and FOX. Previously, he served as Lead Scientist for AI in Cybersecurity at the U.S. Department of Energy’s national security division and held a TS/SCI clearance. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee, where he developed pioneering Internet routing techniques to mitigate large-scale DDoS attacks. A former penetration testing instructor at NYU, he also worked on Cisco’s internal offensive security team. Jared has authored over 20 peer-reviewed papers, holds four granted patents, and has presented at more than 30 industry and academic conferences worldwide.