Kevin O’Connor is the Director of Threat Research at Adlumin, the security operations platform and managed detection and response (MDR) service provider keeping mid-market organizations secure. He previously worked at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), where he received the agency’s most distinguished award for excellence in signals intelligence engineering and an award from the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) in Security & Risk Analysis and Information Sciences and Technology from Pennsylvania State University and completed a postgraduate certificate in Systems Security Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School.