Brent Hansen is the vice president of federal sales engineering 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.