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Brian is a distinguished figure in the field of cybersecurity with over four decades of industry experience. As of 2019, he joined Continent 8 Technologies as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), where his extensive background in cybersecurity, network operations, and compliance significantly contributes to the company's prowess.
Brian's career is marked by a diverse range of roles, from systems security administration to executive positions. He has been instrumental in enhancing the security postures of Fortune 50 companies and held pivotal roles as the principal cybersecurity architect at eBay and PayPal. His expertise extends beyond the corporate realm, with over 15 years of experience in U.S. government intelligence agencies.
C8 Secure - a provider of comprehensive, multi-layered security solutions that focus on threat prevention - has announced a partnership with Vaya Space - a hybrid rocket propulsion and SmallSat launch company - to bring security solutions to the space industry and take C8 Secure’s parent company - Continent 8 Technologies and its network, literally into space.
Jack Blood, Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at Vaya Space, said, “We are excited to help Continent 8 Technologies Founder and CEO, Michael Tobin, continue to expand his vision for Continent 8 by providing space launch services for a planned satellite network. Partnering with C8 Secure, a new Continent 8 company, provides our launch customers and partners with turnkey cyber-security solutions for their operations, payloads, and constellations.”
In addition, this partnership will enable Continent 8 Technologies to increase network footprint, availability, and performance through the use of satellite technology.
Michael Tobin, Founder & CEO of Continent 8 said, “We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Vaya Space. It’s a complete game changer that brings three industry-leading organizations together. Continent 8 has always been deeply committed to reliable innovation and continued investment in advanced data centers, networks and digital infrastructure technology. This partnership allows us to literally bring our network into space, while at the same time knowing that Vaya’s customers and partners will be protected by the cybersecurity solutions that C8 Secure provides.”
Patrick Gardner, Managing Partner at C8 Secure, comments, “We are honored with the opportunity to extend our cybersecurity solution reach from customer premises to data centers and now space. Space-based systems and regulatory frameworks represent unique new challenges and we are up to the task, drawing upon our history of security and compliance success.”
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With over 20 years of cybersecurity experience and numerous industry certifications, Tony Engel has a broad security background spanning Government, DoD and enterprise environments. This includes technical, physical, and administrative controls across the security spectrum. Tony is not one to silo into one specific area and can interface with a wide spectrum of teams while architecting solutions. His recent focus has been securing cloud-based and hybrid workloads that utilize Azure, AWS and VMware.
Some of Tony’s accreditations include: ISC2 CISSP/CCSP, Fortinet NSE4, Azure Architect Expert, Azure Security Engineer and AWS Solution Architect Associate.
As C8Secure’s Cybersecurity Director, Leon oversees the full spectrum of security services including advanced cyber defense, applied cybersecurity solutions and managed security services. Leon also leads the security innovation program, which discovers and delivers new and innovative cybersecurity technologies. He is a highly experienced IT professional with 17 years’ experience in the industry and holds a BEng degree in Software Engineering and a first-class Information Security Master’s Degree from City University, London.
Chad has 18 years of experience in the technology industry and is responsible for delivering on the aggressive revenue targets set by leadership at C8 Secure. Chad has held the sales director as well as channel roles at several companies, most recently with Navisite and RapidScale. In his career, Chad has worked with a wide variety of people and companies. His understanding of technology, the rapid transformation that's happening in the world today, and how it impacts customers, is the value that Chad brings to every relationship. His clients know that he is as committed to their success as they are.
With over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, Patrick is spearheading the company’s Managed Security Services strategy, delivering the next generation of 24/7 threat prevention, detection and response solutions. His vast experience in helping service providers mature their Managed Security businesses has resulted in over a dozen Gartner ratings for Worldwide Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) and North America Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting across five different providers. His previous leadership roles include CEO of Secure-IQ, CTO of Savanture and CTO of BlueAlly.
