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Brian Kenyon Vice President & CTO of Security Connected, McAfee 

Brian Kenyon is Vice President and CTO of Security Connected at McAfee, where he is responsible for the vision and go-to-market strategy and execution of the company’s Security Connected platform. Prior to this role, Brian was senior director of solution architecture where he led the engineering organization focused on developing comprehensive security and compliance. His team was responsible for designing solutions as well as addressing crisis situations in support of some of the world’s largest IT infrastructures.

In 2001 Brian joined Foundstone, which McAfee acquired in 2004. There he was the chief architect of Foundstone’s security operations center and played an integral role in designing and developing the company’s cutting-edge hardware and software solutions, including the award-winning and highly acclaimed FS1000. Brian was also responsible for the development and expansion of the company’s entire product service line, a key strategic growth area for the company.

Brian serves as a trusted advisor to industry and government organizations on key cybersecurity issues and best practices to guard against these evolving threats. He is lead author for Security Sage’s Guide to Hardening the Network Infrastructure, a co-author of Security Battleground: An Executive Field Manual, and contributing author of network architecture for Special Ops: Network and Host Security for Microsoft, Oracle, and UNIX.

Brian holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance with a minor in Entrepreneurship from Loyola Marymount University.  

Michael Crouse Director of Insider Threat Strategies, Raytheon Cyber Products Michael Crouse is Director of Insider Threat Strategies for Raytheon Cyber Products, a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon. In this role Mr. Crouse oversees the execution of existing federal and commercial cyber audits/anti-malware requirements programs while identifying new, global growth opportunities within the Department of Defense (DoD)/Intelligence Community (IC) and the private sector. He works closely with top government decision makers and lends key influence in helping them develop new network security policies, specifically with regard to audit requirements and the detection and mitigation of insider threats. Mr. Crouse graduated Cum Laude from the University of Akron, where he holds a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering. He also earned a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University, in addition to having a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification through the Project Management Institute. Mr. Crouse brings nearly a quarter-century of valuable experience to Raytheon Oakley as an Electrical Engineer/Project Lead for the National Security Agency (NSA), as well as a contractor with various companies – including Stanford Telecom, ITT Industries, General Dynamics and Raytheon – supporting the DoD and IC. His numerous awards include the NSA’s Directors Productivity Improvement Award in January 1996, and the CIA’s Meritorious Unit Citation Award in November 1995.

George Kurtz President, CEO & Co-Founder, CrowdStrike

Serial entrepreneur George Kurtz co-founded CrowdStrike, a cutting-edge, big data, security technology company focused on helping enterprises and governments protect their most sensitive intellectual property and national security information. Kurtz is an internationally recognized security expert, author, entrepreneur, and speaker. He has more than 20 years of experience in the security space, including extensive experience driving revenue growth and scaling small and large organizations. His entrepreneurial background and ability to commercialize nascent technologies has enabled him to drive innovation throughout his career by identifying market trends and correlating them with customer feedback, resulting in rapid growth for the businesses he has run.

His prior roles at McAfee, a $3-billion security company, include Worldwide Chief Technology Officer and GM, as well as SVP of Enterprise. Prior to joining McAfee, Kurtz started Foundstone in October 1999 as the founder and CEO responsible for recruiting the other six founding team members. Foundstone, a world wide security products and services company, had one of the leading incident response practices in the industry, and was acquired by McAFee in October of 2004. He also authored the best-selling security book of all time, Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions.