Dr. Elias Vorn
Founder and Research Director
Specializes in offensive security, distributed systems and protocol-level failure analysis.
Research team / 08 specialists
Ortheon combines protocol research, cryptography, infrastructure security and incident reconstruction within one assessment team.
Founder and Research Director
Specializes in offensive security, distributed systems and protocol-level failure analysis.
Director of Cryptographic Research
Leads research into signature systems, key generation and cryptographic implementation.
Head of Protocol Assessments
Coordinates technical reviews of bridges, execution systems and smart-contract infrastructure.
Director of Infrastructure Security
Researches node security, deployment architecture and operational attack surfaces.
Head of Incident Investigation
Reconstructs exploits and coordinates technical response during security incidents.
Principal Distributed Systems Researcher
Studies validator failures, consensus boundaries and adversarial network conditions.
Senior Security Engineer
Develops testing environments, fuzzing systems and transaction-analysis tools.
Research Operations Lead
Manages assessment scope, responsible disclosure and remediation coordination.
“The useful answer is not that a component is secure. It is which failure remains possible, under whose authority, and with what consequence.”
Ortheon research position / 2026