Oberheide grew up in
Troy, Michigan and began fixing people's computers when he was only in middle school. While attending high school, Oberheide founded a web hosting business with his friends, and would scrape the internet for email addresses in order to find potential clients. He would also hack networks as a challenge to see if they were secured. At the age of 17, he hacked into a
honeypot set up by Dug Song, a security expert and future Duo Security co-founder who set up the honeypot to lure talented hackers. where he discovered multiple flaws in
Android devices. He is also credited with proposing the first
Cloud-based antivirus design in 2008. In 2010, Oberheide (along with Song) founded
Duo Security, a security firm that was purchased by Cisco in 2018 for $2.3 billion. Oberheide served as the company's
CTO. During his career, he has obtained more than 70 patents related to cybersecurity. Oberheide sits on the board of several startups and non-profit organizations, including DNSFilter,
runZero, Push Security, and
The Henry Ford. ==References==