As a CISO, Julian is dedicated to building thoughtful and effective security programs based on adversary intelligence with teams of brilliant practitioners. Julian started his career contracting for the United States Department of Defense. After building a deep understanding of the challenges and constraints that offensive teams have, both enterprise and government, he began helping defensive teams make powerful decisions to defend against adversaries. Julian has given presentations at industry conferences such as BlackHat USA, RSA, USENIX 3GSE, SOURCE Boston, FS-ISAC, Thotcon, and Hushcon.