Brent Hansen is the Federal CTO at Optiv + Clearshark. He currently leads the direction and strategy for technical guidance to customers, partners, and Federal cyber executives. Brent brings over 25+ years of experience in security, data encryption, cloud native, Zero Trust, and API security strategies. Brent has previously held global leadership positions at Cequence Security, D2iQ, and was Federal CTO at Thales Trust Cyber Technologies.