About Fluency
Fluency’s roots started with the need to better understand the challenges of using big data in the security environment. Over time we created the needed technologies to address gaps from databases to scaling expertise of analysts with our SIEM function. Today Fluency has added Oberservability as a function to our tool. Both functions enjoy the ability to act on the incoming data while in-flight giving our clients the fastest possible security and business insights.
Meet our Leaders
Chris Jordan, CEO & Co-Founder
Mr. Jordan has worked in security since 1989. An original member of the Army CERT, he has also established and managed a number of CERTs in the Federal Government and commercially to include the DoD CERT, Army CERT, FAA CISRC, NetSec (now Verizon SOC), JP Morgan CERT and Dupont CERT. In 2003, Mr. Jordan started Endeavor Security in order to pursue innovations addressing the shortcomings in operations security and enterprise security. The result was a product based on artificial intelligence which automated signatures while detecting new threats to an organization. Endeavor was primarily funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Security Agency (NSA). Endeavor Security was acquired by McAfee in 2009, where Mr Jordan was the vice president of McAfee’s Threat Intelligence.
Kun Luo, CTO & Co-Founder
Kun holds two master degrees, Computer Engineer from National University of Singapore and Computer Architecture from University of Maryland at College Park. His previous work on NSA and DHS projects ultimately led to commercial products with McAfee’s host-based antivirus and intrusion detection offering. Previous to Endeavor Security and McAfee, Kun worked at Lucent Technology on their high-speed data processing engine. He is the principal architect of Fluency’s log management and security analytics engine along with the Fusion engine – a high-speed correlation engine to merge network security events with network flows. He’s additionally created the Fluency LavaDB dynamic database, the Vulcan engine, a high-speed metaflow collector and Fluency’s cloud on AWS.
Managing Director
Al started his career right out of high school joining the US Navy as an electronics technician repairing cryptographic communications gear. After the Navy, he joined IBM as a Field Engineer repairing IBM 360 and 370 generation mainframes and supporting I/O products. Al held many positions within IBM over his 31 years at the company. From IBM he was recruited into Avnet Technology Solutions, later purchased by Tech Data where he was supporting the channel with IBM technical needs. He went on to become a Senior Client Executive. After 7 years, he tried retirement which only lasted 9 months before he knew he needed to stay engaged in the industry. Al joined Fluency in 2018.