Machine led
Absorb the repetition.
Let AI and automation handle high volume triage, enrichment, correlation, investigation support, and routine remediation at machine speed.
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FILE 001 // OPERATION: 25 YEARS ACTIVE
Built in the trenches. Leading from the front.
25+ years on one problem: keeping attackers out and keeping operations running. From the infrastructure floor to a global AI driven SOC.
25+years in security & technology
100+analysts, engineers & researchers
24/7follow the sun operations
3continents, one mission
FILE 002 // The operating thesis
The SOC is being reinvented.
AI absorbs the repetitive Tier 1 and Tier 2 work. Humans move up the stack to judgment, advisory, and trust. This is not analyst theory. It is not marketing language. It is the operating model my team runs in production every day.
Human led
Elevate the judgment.
Move people toward the work that compounds: difficult decisions, threat hunting, customer advisory, leadership, empathy, and earned trust.
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Machines take the volume. Humans take the verdict.
FILE 003 // The road here
Not a résumé.
A track record.
A career built across infrastructure, reliability, security, product, DevOps, and global operations. Real defense lives between the boxes on an org chart.
Barnes & Noble · Scholastic · Globix
Learned how real infrastructure breaks.
Learned how live infrastructure fails, how incidents cascade, and how disciplined operations keep the business standing.
Priceline.com
Protected a global platform at internet scale.
Spent 13+ years in infrastructure and security leadership, protecting a global e commerce platform, hardening production, sustaining 99.99% availability, and operating under active threat.
The Priceline DDoS investigation
Stayed with the case for four years.
A sustained 2008 attack became a four year lesson in coordinated defense, evidence, persistence, and staying with the case through the 2012 prosecution.
SKOUT Cybersecurity
Helped shape XDR before the market named it.
Led across product, SOC, and DevOps; scaled the operation 3×; built against PCI DSS, SOC 2, NIST, HIPAA, and GDPR; and helped shape the original XDR vision before the market had a name for it.
Barracuda Networks
Built the modern global SOC.
Following Barracuda's 2021 acquisition of SKOUT, stepped in to lead global security operations across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, and to build the modern AI driven SOC.
CASE FILE // The case that stayed with me
Four years from attack to indictment.
When Priceline was hit by a sustained DDoS attack in 2008, I worked the case with the FBI through the 2012 prosecution of the attacker, Dmitry Zubakha. The incident made the adversary real. And it proved what defense actually requires: coordination, evidence, patience, and operational follow through.
Defense is not a product you buy. It is an operation you run.
FILE 004 // Today / Barracuda Networks
A SOC that
never sleeps.
As VP of Global Cyber Security Operations, I lead a 100+ person organization spanning MDR, XDR, threat intelligence, autonomous engineering, and AI driven operations, with 24/7 follow the sun coverage across AMER, EMEA, and APAC. Attackers do not keep business hours. Neither do we.
Analysts, engineers, and threat researchers across three continents.
Security operations at sustained production scale.
Operationalized across detection, hunting, and response.
From 2,000 to 15,000+ customers following the SKOUT acquisition.
The objective is not more alerts, dashboards, or headcount. It is more protection, better decisions, and greater leverage per person.
FILE 005 // Beyond the SOC
From the command center to the conversation.
I share what operating at scale is teaching us: on keynote stages, in boardrooms, with journalists, and with the next generation of defenders.
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Keynotes & commentary
Operator grounded. No slideware theory. Speaking on AI driven SOC transformation and the future of MDR and XDR. Commentary featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and NBC News.
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Adam Khan Cyber
Practitioner insights, career paths, playbooks, and honest debriefs for analysts, engineers, and leaders.
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Board & executive advisory
Strategic counsel on AI, security operations, organizational design, and MDR/XDR decisions where the consequences are real.
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Pace University
Studied Computer Information Systems and Finance. Technology and business as one operating system.
FILE 006 // At a glance
The briefing card.
Experience25+ years across Fortune 500 and high growth security companies
Current roleVP of Global Cyber Security Operations, Barracuda Networks
Team100+ analysts, engineers, and threat researchers on three continents
Featured inWall Street Journal, Forbes, and NBC News
FILE 007 // Off the clock
Same mission.
Different field.
I am a husband and a father of two teenage sons. On weekends, you will find me on the sideline coaching youth football.
> Read the threat. Trust your team. Execute the play.
OPEN CHANNEL // Contact
Bring an operator into the room.
For keynotes, press commentary, advisory work, and board conversations about AI, MDR, XDR, and the future of security operations. Theory is abundant. Operators are not.