Seth Bromberger

About Seth Bromberger

Seth Bromberger has spent more than thirty years working in network and systems security across government, finance, energy, and defense.

At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he works on graph analytics and data science tooling for high-performance computing environments, with a continuing focus on cybersecurity for critical infrastructure.

Since 2024, Seth has been an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at California State University, East Bay, where he teaches CS471, Security and Information Assurance.

Previously, he was Principal at NCI Security LLC, a consulting firm focused on critical infrastructure protection, and Executive Vice President of Classified and Government Programs at the Energy Sector Security Consortium (EnergySec), a 501(c)(3) non-profit he co-founded in 2008.

Seth presents and publishes on critical infrastructure protection, industrial control system security, and the security of emerging energy technologies. In 2012, he was named a Smart Grid Pioneer by Smart Grid Today magazine.

His work on utility network analysis resulted in two patents: U.S. Patent US10097417B2, covering methods for visualizing and analyzing field area networks, and patent application 13/339,509, describing the TopSight system he developed to detect anomalous behavior in Smart Meter networks at Pacific Gas and Electric. He is also the creator of NetCanary, a reconnaissance detection system for critical infrastructure.