Kenneth Kron

Kenneth Kron has been working in the IT industry since 2006. In 2009, they joined The Security Consortium as a Senior Professional Services Engineer, where they created security auditing scripts and procedures for AWS and on-site deployments, audited applications for security vulnerabilities utilizing static (SAST) and dynamic (DAST) analysis, and delivered secure development training for Java and C. In 2010, they moved to Code Integrity Solutions as a Senior Professional Services Engineer, where they tested millions of lines of source code including a complete phone stack and other critical systems, analyzed entire commercial phone stack utilizing 3 different SAST tools, and triaged and confirmed remediation for phone stack as part of a bottom-up quality improvement effort led by the CTO. In 2011, they joined Truvantis as a Security Consultant, where they created security auditing scripts and procedures for AWS and on-site deployments, audited applications for security vulnerabilities utilizing static (SAST) and dynamic (DAST) analysis, and delivered secure development training for Java and C. In 2016, they started their own business as a Security Consultant, where they met with executives and sales and engineering leadership after a critical customer initiated product wide freeze on upgrades, fixes or new deployments, worked with sales and engineering teams to design and deliver appropriate security artifacts, integrate BurpSuite and Nessus to the python based CI pipeline, and designed and delivered customized training for the engineering and support organizations. In 2020, they joined MagicSolutions.Biz as a Magician, where they were adept at guiding teams through the human conflict in technology projects, and catalyzed that conflict into the magic it was intended to be. Kenneth also joined Bristle Magic as a Special Projects and Insight Data Science as a Fellow, where they engaged with DevOps/SRE team to improve authentication for multi-tenant cloud development, deployed HashiCorp Vault for open source OTP support with multiple identity providers and HashiCorp Boundary to tunnel secure connections without an intermediate VPN provider, and delivered immutable OTP access control infrastructure that is cloud and identity agnostic. In 2021, they joined Vigilent as Chief Information Security Officer and Security Lead, and BristleMagic as Director for Europe.

Kenneth Kron obtained a 5th Degree Black Belt in Aikido from City Aikido in 2032, a B.S. in Computer Science from Southeastern Louisiana University in 1986, and studied Computer Science at Louisiana Tech University from 1981-1982. Kenneth also holds certifications in Unconscious Bias from LinkedIn (obtained in July 2020), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) from (ISC)2 (obtained in September 2019), and Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) from Scrum Alliance (obtained in 2015).