Jack Koons is an information technology and cyberspace operations executive focused on cyberwarfare, information warfare, and cybersecurity. Jack has previously served as Chief Cybersecurity Strategist for a global information technology provider, Principal Portfolio Director for Cyberwarfare and Information Operations, and Senior Principal Solutions Architect for Cyberwarfare and Information Warfare. In addition, Jack is a 25-year career (retired) senior United States Department of Defense Cyber Warfare Officer whose globally-spanning operational, management, and leadership assignments include extensive service within the U.S. National Intelligence, Special Operations, and Cyber communities, to include founding member of the U.S. Army’s Cyber Warfare Career Field, U.S. Army Cyber Command, and emergent United States Department of Defense cyberspace and information warfare effort.
All too often, (cyber) security is seen as an impediment to the organizational mission. Industry is rampant with examples of boardrooms and decision-makers waylaying and marginalizing the security professional and their team(s). What is needed … Read more
Today’s cybersecurity is much more than simply a conversation about information technology, operational technology, and data protection. It’s a world of maneuver inside and across the cognitive, virtual, and physical space – the information environment. … Read more
Data – Promise and Peril According to Cisco, global internet traffic will grow from 0.001 petabytes (or PB, where each PB equals 10005 bytes) in 1990, to an estimated 273 exabytes (or EB, where each … Read more
Hard Truths Members of the cybersecurity industry need to face a few hard truths: The perimeter as we know it is rapidly dissolving. Your data must now traverse known and unknown (i.e., untrusted) infrastructure and … Read more
In a world where the business model is racing to connect everything, security is failing to keep pace. This sets up a dynamic tension within the organization between the network/infrastructure teams and the security teams. … Read more
