Justin Smith

Justin Smith, MS, CISSP, currently serves as a Principal Architect at Ecolab, focusing on Incident Response, Identity, Risk Threat & Vulnerability Management, and Cloud Security since February 2018. Concurrently, Justin holds the position of Mission Element Crew Lead with the Minnesota National Guard, leading a team in safeguarding cyberspace capabilities. Previous roles include Defensive Cyber Operations Engineer at U.S. Army Cyber Command and Information Security Engineer at Sherwin-Williams. Justin's extensive background in cybersecurity includes positions as a Senior Information Security Analyst at Valspar and various roles in the United States Air Force and academic institutions. Justin holds a Master's Degree in Security Technology from the University of Minnesota, along with several other relevant qualifications in electronic systems and intelligence analysis.