Mr.Ken Dunham

Ken Dunham, graduate of Eastern Oregon University, is a pioneering cybersecurity leader whose career spans from being a middle school teacher and developing early antivirus software to becoming a global CISO-level strategist with extensive counter-threat intelligence experience. His early work included discovering a new class of computer viruses, creating the world's top-downloaded Macintosh security software, and publishing a leading book via McGraw-Hill, followed by a period contributing to aerospace innovation on programs like the Predator drone. In the first 15 years of this century he led many Dark Web investigations, handled global breaches, and notable law enforcement operations all around the world countering nation-state, terrorism, and eCrime groups. He later took on executive management roles in leading cybersecurity companies and invented the Optiv Threat DNA PaaS ™ solution. He continues to innovate and remediate emergent global threat to reduce risk. He is the author of many books including his latest, “Cyber CISO Marksmanship: Hitting the Mark in Cybersecurity Leadership".