Sean Thurston

Chief Operations Officer / Chief Information Officer at Keyavi

Sean Thurston has a diverse work experience in various roles related to information technology, security, and architecture. Sean is currently working at Keyavi Data as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Vice President of Professional Services, where they focus on evolving the landscape for Self Protecting Data and ensuring customer success. Prior to this, they were the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Vice President of Information Services at Keyavi Data.

Before joining Keyavi Data, Sean worked at Info-Tech Research Group as the Senior Director of the Security Research Practice, where they focused on building and maturing security programs and advising organizations on security practices and processes. Sean also worked at Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and Merrill Lynch in various executive roles, where they played a key role in enhancing information security practices, developing secure platforms, and implementing new technologies.

Earlier in their career, Sean worked at Microsoft as a System Engineer, where they worked with large communication, advertising, and entertainment companies, and at Netrake as a Network Engineer, where they provided on-site support, validated customer configurations, and resolved system integration issues.

Sean's work experience also includes roles at Western Wireless as a Senior Network Engineer, where they led network design and deployment initiatives, and at Enginex as a Senior Solution Architect, where they managed professional services projects and led networking-related projects.

Prior to their career in the technology industry, Sean worked as a System Engineer at PACCAR.

Sean Thurston attended Bishop Guertin from 1988 to 1992 for an unspecified degree and field of study. Sean then attended Plymouth State University from 1992 to 1995, again without specifying the degree or field of study. In 2004, Sean enrolled at Bellevue College and completed their studies in 2005. The details of their degree and field of study at Bellevue College are not mentioned.

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New York, United States

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Keyavi

Keyavi technology is a data protection platform that wraps your data with multiple layers of encryption and user-defined policies, making your data self-protecting, intelligent, and self-aware. Keyavi embeds encryption and policy-based protection directly into the data, allowing the protected files to be transport agnostic. In other words, dataowners can share files through any method (e.g., email, cloud or USB drive) and the protection stays with the data wherever it goes, in perpetuity. At data owner's discretion, policies for data access can be modified or entirely revoked, allowing for dynamic protection, even after the data has left your environment. With policies based on factors including user, geolocation, time, device, and more, even if files are lost, data stays protected, ultimately making data breaches irrelevant. Selected Keyavi features:• Protect files and control who has access to them dynamically, even after they are shared• Maintain protection of any copies of files • Gain visibility into the entire lifecycle of Keyavi-protected data via chain of custody details• Send and open Keyavi-enabled emails using the Microsoft Outlook plugin• Prevent screen capture and video recording of documents• Revoke access from previously shared data• Allow access by authorized locations and users• Set a time limit for when access to the data access begins and expires• Exclude access from black-listed countries• Protect specific directories automatically with Intelligent Directory™