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Dustin Lehr
Dustin is the Co-founder and Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO) at Katilyst, a company which enhances companies' security cultures through engaging security champion programs. Previously, Dustin spent over a decade in technical roles as a software engineer and application architect in retail, US Department of Defense (DoD), and video game industries before moving into cybersecurity executive leadership and successfully implementing cybersecurity, application security, and security culture programs at large and small companies.
- Security Culture, Awareness and Champions
- Motivational Design and Gamification
- Application/Product Security Strategy
- Metrics, Asset Inventory and Data Analysis
- DevSecOps Tooling and Automation
- Author, Security Champion Success Guide
- Regular speaker at conferences (RSA, Black Hat, OWASP Global, etc) and frequent guest on podcasts, including Absolute AppSec, Modern Cyber, The Application Security Podcast, Application Security Weekly, and the Security Champions Podcast
- AppSec and Security Champion thought leader and social media content creator
- Co-founder, Let's Talk Software Security
- Magna Cum Laude graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Colorado State University
- ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) (2021-2024)
- GIAC Certified Web Application Defender (GWEB) (2019-2023)
Dustin Lehr, an IANS Faculty member since 2024, provides deep, subject-matter expertise to our clients across the following cybersecurity domains: security champions, motivational design and gamification, application/product security strategy, metrics and devsecops tooling and automation.
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