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Operator
Runs a global SOC that never sleeps. VP of Global SecOps & AI Security at Barracuda — a 100+ person team across three continents analyzing 5M+ threats a year and 11B indicators of compromise.
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CYBERSECURITY & AI KEYNOTE SPEAKER
AI is a force multiplier for both security teams and attackers.
Adam Khan is VP of Global SecOps & AI Security at Barracuda and a recognized voice in AI and cybersecurity, featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and NBC News. A founder, keynote speaker, and board member, he builds high performance teams and helps organizations drive digital resilience in the AI era.
25+
years in security & tech
50+
keynotes & talks globally
100s
global media features
Live from the SOC
As featured in and seen on stage at
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Voice
Shapes the conversation the industry needs. Keynote speaker, press voice, and board advisor featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and NBC News — 50+ keynotes and 100s of media features from inside the SOC.
Broadcasting Signal
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Mentor
Trains the defenders coming up behind us. Adam Khan Cyber on YouTube delivers career paths, playbooks, and honest debriefs for the next generation of SOC analysts, engineers, and leaders.
Network Expansion Active
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On stage · Discover26
Barracuda Networks · Malta
TRACK RECORD
Not a resume. A track record.
I'm a husband, father, and youth football coach at heart. Those roles ground me and remind me why any of this work matters.
Professionally, I've spent 25 years in security operations, from the help desk floor at Barnes & Noble to running a 100+ person global SOC at Barracuda Networks, having scaled the operation 7.5x into one of the industry's largest SOCs, running 24/7 across three continents.
I'm the guy who was on the team that answered when attackers hit Priceline.com and Amazon.com in 2008, and stayed on it until the FBI made the arrest. The guy who helped build XDR before the industry had a name for it, and rode that work through an acquisition. The guy who rebuilt one of the industry's largest SOCs around AI, and runs it in production today. And the guy that enterprises, MSPs, and small businesses have called in the middle of ransomware attacks and major breaches, to guide them through their most difficult moments.
Along the way I've led product, engineering, DevOps, security operations, and customer success, and advised CEOs and boards through it all. I believe in leaders building leaders: leading with empathy and compassion while empowering teams to own the mission.
That is not a resume. That is a track record.
Media & Appearances
On the record.
Podcasts, interviews, keynotes, and panels — the full catalog.
Podcast
Conversations from the Show Floor · Tech Talks Network•Nov 17, 2025
What Kevin McCallister From Home Alone Can Teach Us About XDR
Adam Khan and Eric Russo explain how XDR connects security signals across email, identity, networks, cloud, and endpoints — using Kevin McCallister's improvised Home Alone defenses as a memorable analogy.
Podcast
Tech Talks Daily · Tech Talks Network•Sep 19, 2025
From Football Playbooks to Home Alone Tactics
Adam Khan and Eric Russo explain modern cyber defense through football formations, coordinated defensive playbooks, the Home Alone analogy, integrated XDR, automation, and real-time incident response.
Video Interview
Security Boulevard · Techstrong TV•Feb 11, 2025
Adam Khan on the Unique Security Challenges in Education IT
Adam Khan discusses why schools and universities face distinctive cybersecurity challenges — limited budgets, decentralized infrastructure, sensitive data, ransomware, training difficulties, and the need for AI-driven managed security.
Podcast
Cloudcast · Cloud at Work
Ransomware-as-a-Service: The AI-Driven Sales Funnel
Adam Khan joins Tyler Bower and Seth Ellertson to discuss ransomware-as-a-service, how cybercriminal groups operate like businesses, the use of AI in cybercrime, and how defenders can respond.
Podcast
Research Saturday · N2K CyberWire•Dec 21, 2024
Quishing for Trouble
Adam Khan discusses Barracuda research into QR-code phishing — also known as quishing — including how attackers embed malicious QR codes into PDF attachments to steal credentials.
Podcast
The Future of Security Operations · Tines•Apr 9, 2024
Barracuda's Adam Khan on AI-Driven XDR and Plugging the Cybersecurity Skills Gap
Adam Khan discusses AI-driven XDR, security automation, reducing alert fatigue, addressing the cybersecurity skills gap, developing global security teams, and how artificial intelligence is changing cyber defense.
Panel Discussion
MJ Flood Technology•Mar 2023
MJ Flood Technology Cyber Security Lunch
A cybersecurity event featuring Adam Khan, Graham Cluley, Dessie Farrell, and other industry participants discussing cybersecurity threats, business risk, security strategy, and practical defense.
Video Interview
Techstrong TV
Adam Khan on How Cybercriminals Are Using AI to Launch Attacks
Adam Khan explains how cybercriminals are using artificial intelligence to increase the speed, scale, sophistication, and personalization of cyberattacks.
Field Notes
The Latest.
Perspective
The SOC Is Being Reinvented. Most Teams Have Not Noticed Yet.
The shift from analyst driven triage to AI accelerated operations is not a roadmap item. It is happening now, in production, at scale.
Leadership
What Supporting 650% Business Growth Taught Me About Scaling a SOC
Scaling people is a false path. Scaling leverage per person is the only way this math works.
Story
The Day the FBI Called: Lessons from the Priceline DDoS Investigation
2008. The attack was coordinated. The response had to be coordinated back. What we learned about staying on it until the arrest.
Recent stages
On stage, in the field.
The Debrief
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