Julian Zottl

Julian Zottl is the Chief Technology Officer for Raytheon Cyber Protection Solutions (CPS) within Raytheon Technologies Intelligence and Space (RI&S). He is also a Cyber and Information Operations Subject Matter Expert (SME) and has been a Cyber Architect on multiple projects and proposals. RIS is a leader in Intelligence, Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR); advanced cyber solutions; weather and environmental solutions and information-based solutions for homeland security. It also provides training, logistics, engineering, product support, and operational support services and solutions for the mission support, homeland security, space, civil aviation, counter-proliferation and counterterrorism markets.

Julian has over 28 years in Engineering. He received his undergrad and masters in Electrical Engineering. During grad school, he worked for the Vitreous State Laboratory (VSL). There, he architected a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system to control the flow, processing and disposal of nuclear waste. Later, these technologies were deployed at nuclear waste disposal sites throughout the U.S. From VSL, he went to work at NASA HQ, engineering solutions for the NASA Network Operations Center (NOC) to enhance security. Following that, he went to FannieMae, where he helped bring the organization up to SOX compliance and enhance the cyber security of FannieMae’s servers. After receiving a call from a friend that worked at Raytheon, he joined the company and has been with them for 17 years.

During his tenure at Raytheon, Julian has been awarded multiple patents for Cyber Security and Information Operations (IO). These patents cover technologies from malware lab isolation to Internet communication monitoring. He has finished the Raytheon Certified Architect Program and will be starting his Doctorate of Engineering in 2023.

Julian’s career at Raytheon started in reverse engineering for US Intelligence and Defense customers. There, he reverse engineered hardware and software to discover how it worked, then augmented it for new purposes.

His experience in modifying devices and code lead him to work on intelligence systems for collection of data across the Internet. After this, he took a project for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to modernize the security of the missile defense system of the US. After this, Julian explored Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) technologies, where he developed systems to help retain anonymity on the Internet to collect information.

Julian became the Chief Architect, during proposal and execution, of a national cyber defense system for an entire country. After this, he became Chief Architect in charge of International Cyber projects at Raytheon. He traveled throughout the world, presenting at conferences and to customers on architecting nation scale Computer Network Defense (CND) and Information Operation solutions. These included over 15 countries, and within the US, at conferences such as DEFCON and BSides .He also led a panel at DEFCON Blue team after dark in 2019 on APT threats. For the last 5 years, he has also been a Red Team member for the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. In addition to his work outside of Raytheon, he presents regularly to Raytheon employees on Cyber topics.

Presently, he is the CTO of CPS and is continually challenging the state of the art in Cyber offense and defense technologies.

Outside of work, Julian is an off piste skier, Rally Cross competitor, climber, and technology enthusiast.