Jim Penrose

Jim Penrose is the EVP for Cyber Intelligence at Darktrace where he leads the firm¹s cyber operations team. A distinguished speaker, Jim has presented at the 2014 Cybersecurity Summit, the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, and the Suits and Spooks London 2014 meeting. Jim joins Darktrace following a distinguished 17 year career at NSA where he achieved the rank of Defense Intelligence Senior Level and was responsible for a variety of roles encompassing cyber threat analysis and counterterrorism. Most recently, as Chief of the Operational Discovery Center, Jim innovated new signal intelligence capabilities to discover previously unknown threats. Jim has been at the forefront of cyber operations throughout his career and was nominated for a Presidential Rank award in 2013 and 2014.

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Changing the Game of Threat Hunting

There’s no such thing as a coincidence - Discovering Novel Cyber Threats