Ben Cotton

Ben Cotton serves as the Vice President for Incident Response at eSentire since June 2021 and has been a member of the BYU Cyber Research and Advisory Board since May 2013. As the founder of Cyber Technology Services, Inc. and CyFIR, established in July 2007 and April 2018 respectively, Ben has extensive entrepreneurial experience. Prior roles include instructor at Guidance Software, Director of the Commercial Services Division at Emerging Technology Group, Senior Forensic Examiner at the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Chief Warrant Officer in the US Army for over two decades. Ben holds a Master of Science in Information Technology Management from the University of Maryland Global Campus, obtained between 2000 and 2002, and graduated from Sheridan High School in 1980.