Our Mission

Defend the Nation and the global Internet

Our Story

SixMap’s journey began with Dr. Austin Murdock, whose career in the Department of Defense (DOD) was inspired by his parents’ distinguished service in national security. His dedication to cybersecurity and national defense propelled him to early achievements, including working for the DOD in high school.

In 2017, during his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Murdock developed Computational Mapping and first applied it to Internet-wide IPv6 scanning. In 2020, recognizing this technology’s transformative potential for defending computer networks, Dr. Murdock founded SixMap.

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Meet Our Founder

Austin Murdock

Chairman, Chief Scientist, and Founder

Dr. Murdock is the inventor of Computational Mapping and a subject matter expert in Cybersecurity, Networking, High Performance Computing, and Machine Learning. He invented Computational Mapping based on his career leading research teams at the International Computer Science Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Johns Hopkins University. He also helped defend USG computer networks when he worked for the United States Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.