Founder

Proper Tools was founded by Trey Darley, a resilience engineer and strategic intelligence practitioner working at the intersection of cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and systemic risk.

• Standards & coordination: Chairs the FIRST Time Security SIG; co-founded the FIRST Standards and DNS Abuse SIGs.
• ITU-T work: In December 2024, ITU-T SG17 approved work item C396 on global coordination requirements for 2038-class epoch rollover events, developed through this work.
• Leadership: Former Security Senior Manager at Accenture; former elected member of the FIRST Board of Directors.
• National cyber: Founding team at Belgium’s national CSIRT (CERT.be); architected and implemented the Belgian Anti-Phishing Shield (BAPS) for the CCB.
• Threat intel standards: Former co-chair of the OASIS CTI Technical Committee (STIX/TAXII) and contributor across ITU-T, IETF, and OASIS.
• Product & engineering: Built threat intelligence platform capabilities for FS-ISAC communities; earlier embedded systems engineering for telco-grade infrastructure.

Patron saints include Grace Hopper, Evi Nemeth, and Paul Erdős.