An afternoon with UPSTACK

Joe is a 20-year veteran of the United States Coast Guard and a highly qualified cybersecurity and threat expert with demonstrated hands-on experience in intrusion detection, incident response, and computer forensics. Adept in planning, implementing, and upgrading security measures, identifying advanced threats, and troubleshooting in complicated environments. Joe holds a Bachelor’s in Information Systems Security with a concentration in Cybersecurity from American Military University and is a graduate of the Joint Information Warfare Training Center.

John Britton is the Vice President of Channel Sales at Silver Sky, where he integrates technical expertise, strategic leadership, and a deep commitment to partner success to strengthen the company’s channel ecosystem. He is recognized for translating complex cybersecurity capabilities into tangible business value, leading high-performance teams, and building scalable go-to-market strategies across both Microsoft-centric and vendor-agnostic MXDR solutions. Widely regarded as the best thing to come out of Britain since tea, John brings clarity, precision, and impact to every initiative he leads.

Chris Moore is the Vice President of Solutions Architecture at Thrive. He works with existing and prospective clients to architect the best-in-class compliant Cloud, Cybersecurity, Disaster Recovery and SD-WAN managed solutions. During his more than 20-year career, Chris has assisted companies of all sizes to plan, develop, manage, and implement business strategies through technology while building and leading IT teams. He first joined Thrive in 2004 as a Senior Business Strategist and then held IT architecture and operations leadership positions at TriCore Solutions, Navisite, XOS Digital, and HiWired. Chris returned to Thrive in 2016 and now creates the vision and solutions that digitally transform companies securely and efficiently. Chris has a Bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University and maintains multiple technical certifications including Fortinet, Cisco, Microsoft, and his Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

With more than two decades of knowledge, I offer expertise covering cloud, network, and information security as well as data privacy. My tool chest includes experience in both the public and private sectors that encompass not only the network and endpoint, but the controls and services related to threat intelligence, data collection/retention, and GRC. As a Solution Architect at Lumen, I cover our Three Pillar strategy: network infrastructure purpose built for AI, a programmable digital platform, and a connected ecosystem. Within that ecosystem, I am focused on partner enablement and security services. My passion is information security with a concentration over the last two years on cloud security. Specifically, security in AWS and with Fortinet. I hold current CISSP, CCSP, AWS Security Specialization along with Fortinet NSE7’s in SASE and Public Cloud.

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