Ian McIntyre comes from a background centered on cybersecurity operations, insider threat, vulnerability management, and incident response. He currently serves as the Senior Manager of Incident Response at Varonis, approaching cybersecurity through a data-centric lens with the goal of securing unstructured data from the inside out. His team’s work involves the detection of, response to, and remediation from ransomware attacks – this includes leading response efforts against notable threat actors including Blackcat, Darkside, and REvil. Prior to his work at Varonis, he served as a Security Analyst (civilian) in the US Navy and interned at SEI’s CERT Insider Threat Center.