Bret is currently Chief Security Strategist at Afero. His past work experience includes CTO of Emerging Technologies for Broadcom and various CTO leadership positions at Symantec, Blue Coat Systems, and Solera Networks.
His current research projects include threat intelligence, IoT and the hyper-connected edge, automated and collaborative cyber security playbooks, and the impacts of upcoming technology on cyber security, privacy, and society.
He has extensive experience collaborating with government agencies, critical infrastructure, industry thought leaders, and academic researchers from around the world to drive creative new ideas, technologies, and solutions that can have material impact on protecting systems and data crucial to our way of life.
Bret has over 30 years of experience and held many leadership roles in large global enterprise companies, startups, non-profits, and academic institutions. He started his career as Director of Networking at the University of Utah where he helped design and implement the first wide-scale 802.1X network with distributed authentication which later formed the basis of EduRoam. He has also led several international standards including STIX, TAXII, CACAO, and OpenC2 and has presented numerous times at RSA, ISC2 Security Congress, FS-ISAC, ITU, FIRST, ETSI TC-Cyber, and ENISA conferences. He enjoys working on hard problems and helping design solutions that can change the world.
In 2022 he graduated from the MS-CSIA program at SUU.
