David Dalling

David is a subject matter expert with over 20 years of Information Security experience and IT Operations. He is an accomplished, motivated, and versatile IT professional in a variety of Information Technology fields ranging from hands-on systems development, testing, and management to enterprise-level strategic planning, and consultation. David is a man of firsts; He helped get the DHS Enterprise Security Operations program its first ever ATO, wrote the first ever common control package for DHS, received a security engineering award at DHS HQ for developing a metrics program that contributed to DHS first ever perfect score card. Taking this experience David then lead the development of the first ever Managed XDR service to receive its FedRAMP Authorization. David has now taken his love to take on new challenges to Adventure racing were he purposely gets lost in the woods to compete with Trail running, Mountain biking and kayaking for 100s miles. As the Global VP for Splunk’s Cyber Strategist team, David helps drive the security strategy for Splunk and its security products.