Rich Barger

As the director of security research at Splunk, Rich enjoys maturing innovative ideas into disruptive new solutions. Over 20 years ago, Rich began his career in the U.S Army as a Military Intelligence Analyst, which introduced him to the magic world of Unix. This experience laid the groundwork for him to pioneer the field of threat intelligence analysis as a security consultant within various defense and intelligence agencies. By 2011 he co-founded ThreatConnect as the CIO, where he led the globally recognized ThreatConnect Intelligence Research Team. Rich holds a B.S. in Information Systems Security from American Military University.